118,942 people (2024 Census estimate, +14.1% since 2020)
563 square miles of land · 211 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.
4 active community water systems list Limestone County in the area they serve, reporting 138,561 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LIMESTONE COUNTY WATER & SEWER AUTH. surface water · local government · AL0000833 | 90,900 served |
| ATHENS UTILITIES surface water · local government · AL0000824 | 43,431 served |
| ARDMORE WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · AL0001420 | 3,903 served |
| SWAN CREEK COMMUNITY buys surface water · private · AL0000831 | 327 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 285 people were held in Limestone County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 376 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 240.
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 Limestone County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $181 million — $146.8 million to run schools, about $9,241 per student, plus $29.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $44.5 million local (mostly property tax), $131.6 million state, $19 million federal. Long-term debt: $69.2 million.
Spent $65.2 million — $56 million to run schools, about $11,569 per student, plus $5.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $34.9 million local (mostly property tax), $38 million state, $7.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.6 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 Limestone County about $47.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
325 bridges in Limestone County: 142 in good condition, 176 fair, and 7 poor (2.2%). “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.
| PETTUSVILLE RD over BRANCH · built 1952 | 300 vehicles a day |
| OLD SCH HOUSE RD over DAVIS BR · built 1947 | 250 vehicles a day |
| MCCORMACK RD over BECKHAM CR · built 1955 | 200 vehicles a day |
| _SAND SPRINGS RD. over _HAUSKIN BRANCH · built 1953 | 185 vehicles a day |
| TURKEY CREEK RD over TURKEY CR · built 1945 | 60 vehicles a day |
| FARM RD 04 over LIMESTONE CREEK · built 1948 | 35 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $29.1 million of work in Limestone County in fiscal 2025, about $281 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 Limestone 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 Limestone County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Madison County (25 mi) · Morgan County (26 mi) · Giles County, TN (27 mi) · Lawrence County (27 mi) · Lincoln County, TN (32 mi) · Lawrence County, TN (37 mi).