187,847 people (2024 Census estimate, +7.4% since 2020)
608 square miles of land · 309 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 Lee County in the area they serve, reporting 202,404 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| AUBURN, THE WW BOARD OF THE CITY OF surface water · local government · AL0000804 | 74,292 served |
| OPELIKA, WW BD. OF THE CITY OF surface water · local government · AL0000816 | 56,520 served |
| SMITHS WATER & SEWER AUTHORITY surface water · local government · AL0000820 | 33,555 served |
| LOACHAPOKA WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0000814 | 14,964 served |
| BEAUREGARD WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0000805 | 12,684 served |
| BEULAH UTILITIES DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · AL0000180 | 10,389 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 391 people were held in Lee County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 324 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 406.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Lee County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $138.6 million — $115.2 million to run schools, about $12,136 per student, plus $14 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $83.6 million local (mostly property tax), $68.9 million state, $9.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.1 million.
Spent $134.1 million — $117 million to run schools, about $12,567 per student, plus $11.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $45.6 million local (mostly property tax), $78.5 million state, $21.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $55.4 million.
Spent $88.5 million — $61.7 million to run schools, about $12,232 per student, plus $24.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $31.8 million local (mostly property tax), $38.9 million state, $11.4 million federal.
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 Lee County about $40.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
214 bridges in Lee County: 87 in good condition, 124 fair, and 3 poor (1.4%). “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.
| I-85 over MOORES MILL CREEK · built 1958 | 40,660 vehicles a day |
| US 280 over FIRST AVENUE · built 1996 | 32,040 vehicles a day |
| SR 169 over FLAKE CREEK · built 1948 | 3,640 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $108.3 million of work in Lee County in fiscal 2025, about $622 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 Lee 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 Lee County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Chambers County (22 mi) · Russell County (24 mi) · Macon County (25 mi) · Harris County, GA (27 mi) · Muscogee County, GA (29 mi) · Tallapoosa County (32 mi).