97,502 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.7% since 2020)
668 square miles of land · 146 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 Lauderdale County in the area they serve, reporting 126,900 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| FLORENCE WATER DEPARTMENT, CITY OF surface water · local government · AL0000783 | 77,766 served |
| WEST LAUDERDALE CO, WATER & FPA buys surface water · local government · AL0000794 | 15,681 served |
| EAST LAUDERDALE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY buys groundwater · local government · AL0001424 | 11,100 served |
| GREENHILL WATER & FIRE PRO AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001423 | 8,505 served |
| ROGERSVILLE WATER WORKS & SEWER BOARD groundwater · local government · AL0000789 | 5,817 served |
| CHISHOLM HEIGHTS, WATER & F P AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0000777 | 4,881 served |
| LEXINGTON WATER WORKS buys groundwater · local government · AL0000788 | 3,150 served |
| PLURIS ALABAMA LLC, groundwater · private · AL0001808 | 0 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 344 people were held in Lauderdale County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 577 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2013 it was about 233.
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 Lauderdale County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $111.8 million — $99 million to run schools, about $12,253 per student, plus $10.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $28.6 million local (mostly property tax), $65.8 million state, $15.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $23.3 million.
Spent $79.9 million — $66.8 million to run schools, about $14,380 per student, plus $10.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $36.2 million local (mostly property tax), $39.9 million state, $13.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $56.9 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 Lauderdale County about $53.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
266 bridges in Lauderdale County: 121 in good condition, 132 fair, and 13 poor (4.9%). “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.
| NATCHEZ TRACE PARK over TENNESSEE RIVER · built 1964 | 1,100 vehicles a day |
| CO 27 over ST. FLORIAN BRANCH · built 1937 | 500 vehicles a day |
| CO 88 over SECOND CREEK RELIEF · built 1937 | 453 vehicles a day |
| CO 88 over SECOND CREEK · built 1937 | 232 vehicles a day |
| CO 49 over MIDDLE FORK BRANCH · built 1937 | 180 vehicles a day |
| CO 258 over BRANCH · built 1937 | 92 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $27.1 million of work in Lauderdale County in fiscal 2025, about $290 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 Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Colbert County (16 mi) · Wayne County, TN (25 mi) · Lawrence County, TN (26 mi) · Lawrence County (32 mi) · Franklin County (34 mi) · Tishomingo County, MS (35 mi).