36,630 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.2% since 2020)
945 square miles of land · 39 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.
9 active community water systems list Escambia County in the area they serve, reporting 43,326 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WEST ESCAMBIA UTILITIES, INC. groundwater · local government · AL0000553 | 12,060 served |
| BREWTON, THE WWB OF THE CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0000555 | 11,430 served |
| MCCALL WATER SYSTEM INC groundwater · local government · AL0000566 | 8,400 served |
| FREEMANVILLE WATER SYSTEM, INC. groundwater · local government · AL0000561 | 3,414 served |
| EAST BREWTON, THE WWB OF THE TOWN OF groundwater · local government · AL0000558 | 2,994 served |
| FLOMATON, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · AL0000559 | 2,409 served |
| ESCAMBIA COMMUNITY UTILITIES LLC groundwater · local government · AL0000563 | 1,500 served |
| RIVERVIEW WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · AL0000570 | 903 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 264 people were held in Escambia County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 1,157 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 281.
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 Escambia County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $65.6 million — $61.5 million to run schools, about $14,618 per student, plus $2.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.9 million local (mostly property tax), $34.8 million state, $13.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $23.5 million.
Spent $17.7 million — $15.6 million to run schools, about $12,712 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.9 million local (mostly property tax), $10.3 million state, $2.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $16 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 Escambia County about $36.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
200 bridges in Escambia County: 44 in good condition, 153 fair, and 3 poor (1.5%). “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.
| MILLER CREEK BRIDG over MILLER CREEK · built 1964 | 100 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over HODGE CREEK · built 1968 | 75 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over NARROW GAP CREEK · built 1945 | 20 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $27.4 million of work in Escambia County in fiscal 2025, about $746 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 Escambia 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 Escambia County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Conecuh County (24 mi) · Santa Rosa County, FL (32 mi) · Monroe County (34 mi) · Escambia County, FL (42 mi) · Covington County (43 mi) · Baldwin County (47 mi).