13,543 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.9% since 2020)
605 square miles of land · 22 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 Lamar County in the area they serve, reporting 15,471 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| VERNON WATER AND SEWER BOARD groundwater · local government · AL0000773 | 9,801 served |
| SULLIGENT, CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0000772 | 2,643 served |
| MILLPORT, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · AL0000770 | 1,410 served |
| KENNEDY WATER WORKS BOARD groundwater · local government · AL0000769 | 723 served |
| EAST LOWNDES WATER ASSOCIATION, INC. buys groundwater · local government · AL0001809 | 459 served |
| DETROIT WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · AL0000767 | 435 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 61 people were held in Lamar County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 719 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 53.
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 Lamar County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $28.8 million — $26.4 million to run schools, about $12,004 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6 million local (mostly property tax), $20.7 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.6 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lamar County about $7.6 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.
180 bridges in Lamar County: 42 in good condition, 133 fair, and 5 poor (2.8%). “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.
| AL-17 over Luxapallilia Creek · built 1954 | 1,721 vehicles a day |
| FIRST AVENUE EAST over YELLOW CK RELIEF · built 1928 | 947 vehicles a day |
| FIRST AVENUE EAST over YELLOW CREEK · built 1928 | 947 vehicles a day |
| FIRST AVENUE EAST over YELLOW CREEK RELIEF · built 1928 | 947 vehicles a day |
| RAILROAD STREET over Driver Creek · built 1900 | 15 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $15.6 million of work in Lamar County in fiscal 2025, about $1,114 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 Lamar 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 Lamar County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Fayette County (19 mi) · Monroe County, MS (24 mi) · Marion County (27 mi) · Lowndes County, MS (30 mi) · Pickens County (34 mi) · Itawamba County, MS (38 mi).