92,604 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.1% since 2020)
735 square miles of land · 126 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
10 active community water systems list Cullman County in the area they serve, reporting 141,476 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CULLMAN COUNTY WATER DEPARTMENT buys surface water · local government · AL0000394 | 57,006 served |
| CULLMAN, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · AL0001786 | 36,741 served |
| V.A.W. WATER SYSTEM, INC buys surface water · local government · AL0000413 | 17,466 served |
| EAST CULLMAN WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · AL0000402 | 13,284 served |
| HANCEVILLE, THE WW & SB OF THE CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0000406 | 6,042 served |
| JOPPA HULACO & RYAN WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0000409 | 5,220 served |
| JOHNSONS CROSSING WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · AL0000408 | 3,570 served |
| WALTER WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0000414 | 1,317 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 428 people were held in Cullman County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 748 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 357.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
2 school districts have their office in Cullman County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $142.8 million — $116.4 million to run schools, about $11,821 per student, plus $22.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $48.6 million local (mostly property tax), $87.4 million state, $19.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $30.4 million.
Spent $64.9 million — $41.4 million to run schools, about $12,820 per student, plus $21.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $21 million local (mostly property tax), $23.8 million state, $6.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $16.5 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Cullman County about $34.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
246 bridges in Cullman County: 71 in good condition, 161 fair, and 14 poor (5.7%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| OLD 3RD AVE SE over L*N RAIL ROAD · built 1912 | 1,128 vehicles a day |
| WALNUT ST over RAILROAD @ WALNUT STREET · built 1915 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| SR 91 over DORSEY CREEK · built 1972 | 713 vehicles a day |
| C0. RT. 52 over PAN CREEK · built 1952 | 200 vehicles a day |
| cr 1427 over EIGHTMILE CREEK · built 1947 | 170 vehicles a day |
| CR 538 over MUD CREEK · built 1973 | 110 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $20.2 million of work in Cullman County in fiscal 2025, about $230 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Alabama are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Cullman County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Cullman County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Blount County (20 mi) · Morgan County (22 mi) · Winston County (28 mi) · Marshall County (34 mi) · Walker County (34 mi) · Lawrence County (38 mi).