53,780 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.4% since 2020)
1,078 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.
8 active community water systems list Jackson County in the area they serve, reporting 114,741 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SECTION & DUTTON, WATER WORKS BD. OF surface water · local government · AL0000728 | 35,259 served |
| DEKALB-JACKSON WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT surface water · local government · AL0001796 | 32,421 served |
| SCOTTSBORO WATER SEWER & GB surface water · local government · AL0000729 | 22,200 served |
| JACKSON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001748 | 7,968 served |
| CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN WATER & FPA buys surface water · local government · AL0000717 | 5,880 served |
| BRIDGEPORT UTILITIES BOARD surface water · local government · AL0000713 | 5,505 served |
| STEVENSON, UTIL. BOARD OF THE TOWN OF groundwater · local government · AL0000732 | 4,101 served |
| PISGAH WATER DEPARTMENT buys surface water · local government · AL0000726 | 1,407 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 175 people were held in Jackson County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 530 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 211.
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 Jackson County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $82.3 million — $67.4 million to run schools, about $12,970 per student, plus $12.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22.7 million local (mostly property tax), $45.7 million state, $17.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $29.4 million.
Spent $37 million — $31.3 million to run schools, about $12,975 per student, plus $4.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.8 million local (mostly property tax), $20.9 million state, $4.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $32.6 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 Jackson County about $29.4 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.
313 bridges in Jackson County: 85 in good condition, 216 fair, and 12 poor (3.8%). “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 MT CARMEL RD over BENGESS CREEK · built 1965 | 720 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 21 over CREEK · built 1973 | 652 vehicles a day |
| CO RT 60 over JONES CREEK · built 1961 | 530 vehicles a day |
| Co Rd 18 over KIRBY CREEK · built 1975 | 106 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 88 over BRANCH · built 1959 | 76 vehicles a day |
| CR 354 over BRYANT CREEK · built 1971 | 60 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $22.9 million of work in Jackson County in fiscal 2025, about $435 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 Jackson 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 Jackson County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: DeKalb County (23 mi) · Dade County, GA (28 mi) · Franklin County, TN (28 mi) · Madison County (32 mi) · Marion County, TN (33 mi) · Marshall County (37 mi).