31,874 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.6% since 2020)
634 square miles of land · 50 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.
6 active community water systems list Franklin County in the area they serve, reporting 39,507 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| RUSSELLVILLE WATER WORKS AND SEWER BOARD surface water · local government · AL0000610 | 17,100 served |
| PHIL CAMPBELL WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · AL0000606 | 7,425 served |
| RED BAY, THE WATER WORKS & GAS BD groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · AL0000607 | 6,048 served |
| FRANKLIN COUNTY WATER SERVICE AUTHORITY surface water · local government · AL0001500 | 5,166 served |
| HODGES WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · AL0000604 | 2,400 served |
| VINA WATER WORKS BOARD buys surface water · local government · AL0000612 | 1,368 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 97 people were held in Franklin County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 488 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 105.
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 Franklin County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $56.8 million — $48.8 million to run schools, about $13,421 per student, plus $6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.1 million local (mostly property tax), $32.6 million state, $10.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.5 million.
Spent $39 million — $33.2 million to run schools, about $12,714 per student, plus $3.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.8 million local (mostly property tax), $22.2 million state, $7.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $16.7 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Franklin County about $17.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
193 bridges in Franklin County: 67 in good condition, 118 fair, and 8 poor (4.1%). “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.
| SR 243 over CEDAR CREEK · built 1965 | 3,290 vehicles a day |
| GAINES AVE over TOWN BRANCH · built 1950 | 500 vehicles a day |
| CO RD B67 over STINKING BEAR CREEK · built 1964 | 495 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 11 over RAMSEY MILL BRANCH · built 1935 | 170 vehicles a day |
| CO RD B22 over LITTLE BEAR CREEK · built 1936 | 65 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 38 over MCNAIR CREEK · built 1967 | 55 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.1 million of work in Franklin County in fiscal 2025, about $314 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 Franklin 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 Franklin County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Colbert County (18 mi) · Marion County (21 mi) · Lawrence County (30 mi) · Tishomingo County, MS (30 mi) · Itawamba County, MS (32 mi) · Winston County (34 mi).