18,159 people (2024 Census estimate, −6.7% since 2020)
609 square miles of land · 30 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.
5 active community water systems list Macon County in the area they serve, reporting 25,356 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TUSKEGEE, UTILITIES BOARD OF THE CITY OF surface water · local government · AL0000870 | 12,900 served |
| MACON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0000867 | 7,494 served |
| NOTASULGA WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · AL0000862 | 2,850 served |
| STAR-MINDINGALL WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0000865 | 1,962 served |
| FRANKLIN, TOWN OF buys surface water · local government · AL0000860 | 150 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 35 people were held in Macon County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 270 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2013 it was about 10.
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 Macon County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $34.2 million — $31.5 million to run schools, about $17,599 per student, plus $280,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.2 million local (mostly property tax), $17.2 million state, $10.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $29.1 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 Macon County about $5.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
176 bridges in Macon County: 48 in good condition, 113 fair, and 15 poor (8.5%). “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.
| I85 over BRANCH · built 1963 | 31,250 vehicles a day |
| AL 81 over W. OF AL. RR · built 1936 | 1,660 vehicles a day |
| AL.199 over BRANCH · built 1943 | 1,270 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 56 over GLEEDEN BRANCH · built 1957 | 587 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 26 over OPINTLOCCO CREEK RELIEF · built 1961 | 536 vehicles a day |
| CO RD 26 over OPINTLOCCO CREEK · built 1961 | 535 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $60.2 million of work in Macon County in fiscal 2025, about $3,083 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 Macon 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 Macon County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Bullock County (20 mi) · Lee County (25 mi) · Elmore County (30 mi) · Russell County (30 mi) · Montgomery County (32 mi) · Tallapoosa County (33 mi).