225,894 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.1% since 2020)
785 square miles of land · 288 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 Montgomery County in the area they serve, reporting 291,672 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MONTGOMERY, THE WW&SSB OF THE CITY OF surface water · local government · AL0001070 | 276,000 served |
| PINTLALA WATER SYSTEM, INC. buys surface water · local government · AL0001073 | 5,343 served |
| PINE LEVEL WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0001071 | 2,700 served |
| SNOWDOUN WATER SYSTEM INC groundwater · local government · AL0001078 | 2,550 served |
| SELLERS STATION WATER SYSTEM, INC. groundwater · local government · AL0001077 | 1,644 served |
| FSI EVERGREEN ESTATES PROPERTY, LLC buys surface water · private · AL0001791 | 1,449 served |
| RAMER WATER COMPANY, INC. groundwater · local government · AL0001074 | 1,398 served |
| PILGRIM-PROVIDENCE WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0001072 | 588 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 737 people were held in Montgomery County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 518 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 775.
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 Montgomery County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $413.1 million — $348.4 million to run schools, about $12,991 per student, plus $51.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $82.3 million local (mostly property tax), $220.1 million state, $134 million federal. Long-term debt: $63.1 million.
Spent $33 million — $29.6 million to run schools, about $10,965 per student, plus $2.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.6 million local (mostly property tax), $24 million state, $1.5 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Montgomery County about $87.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
597 bridges in Montgomery County: 218 in good condition, 363 fair, and 16 poor (2.7%). “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 S JACKSON ST · built 1969 | 104,310 vehicles a day |
| IN 85 over UNION ST · built 1970 | 83,530 vehicles a day |
| US 31 over DRAINAGE CANAL · built 1926 | 20,900 vehicles a day |
| I65 SBL over PINTLALA CREEK · built 1965 | 16,060 vehicles a day |
| I65 NBL over PINTLALA CREEK · built 1965 | 16,060 vehicles a day |
| I65 RAMP 52 over W.JEFF DAVIS AVE · built 1972 | 10,490 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.4 billion of work in Montgomery County in fiscal 2025, about $10,413 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of Alabama: the state government and every county in Alabama.
Nearby counties: Lowndes County (26 mi) · Elmore County (27 mi) · Bullock County (29 mi) · Pike County (32 mi) · Macon County (32 mi) · Crenshaw County (33 mi).