33,567 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.5% since 2020)
691 square miles of land · 49 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 Lawrence County in the area they serve, reporting 26,781 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WEST LAWRENCE WATER COOP buys surface water · local government · AL0000801 | 15,669 served |
| MOULTON WATER WORKS BOARD surface water · local government · AL0000798 | 9,585 served |
| TOWN CREEK WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · AL0000800 | 1,527 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 130 people were held in Lawrence County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 615 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 155.
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 Lawrence County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $72.1 million — $62.9 million to run schools, about $13,382 per student, plus $7.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.7 million local (mostly property tax), $44.9 million state, $15.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $27.2 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 Lawrence County about $20.5 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.
215 bridges in Lawrence County: 107 in good condition, 104 fair, and 4 poor (1.9%). “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.
| JEFFERSON STREET over SOUTHERN RAILROAD · built 1927 | 1,100 vehicles a day |
| COURT STREET over PRVITTS CREEK · built 1926 | 600 vehicles a day |
| RAILROAD ST over STREAM · built 1949 | 100 vehicles a day |
| CO RT 593 over BIG NANCE CREEK · built 1985 | 75 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.1 million of work in Lawrence County in fiscal 2025, about $185 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Winston County (26 mi) · Limestone County (27 mi) · Morgan County (28 mi) · Colbert County (30 mi) · Franklin County (30 mi) · Lauderdale County (32 mi).