7,127 people (2024 Census estimate, −7.5% since 2020)
647 square miles of land · 11 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.
3 active community water systems list Greene County in the area they serve, reporting 9,963 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EUTAW WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · AL0000636 | 4,764 served |
| GREENE COUNTY WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0000643 | 4,062 served |
| FORKLAND WATER SYSTEM buys groundwater · local government · AL0001428 | 1,137 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 62 people were held in Greene County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 1,340 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 34.
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.
1 school district has its office in Greene County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $19.7 million — $17.5 million to run schools, about $19,154 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.2 million local (mostly property tax), $8.6 million state, $6.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $19.1 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Greene County about $5.6 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.
204 bridges in Greene County: 92 in good condition, 106 fair, and 6 poor (2.9%). “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.
| AL-7 over Trib. to Minters Creek · built 1918 | 2,088 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 20 over TRUSSELL CREEK · built 1953 | 2,000 vehicles a day |
| AL-7 over Sims Creek · built 1937 | 1,210 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 213 over MINTERS CREEK · built 1942 | 130 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 128 over DRY CREEK · built 1958 | 105 vehicles a day |
| SPRINGFIELD AVE over WILLOW CREEK · built 1962 | 16 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.4 million of work in Greene County in fiscal 2025, about $1,346 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 Greene 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 Greene County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Hale County (21 mi) · Sumter County (22 mi) · Pickens County (32 mi) · Kemper County, MS (39 mi) · Noxubee County, MS (39 mi) · Tuscaloosa County (40 mi).