33,124 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.7% since 2020)
672 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.
5 active community water systems list Pike County in the area they serve, reporting 40,299 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TROY UTILITIES, CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0001124 | 23,523 served |
| PIKE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0001120 | 12,021 served |
| BRUNDIDGE WATER DEPARTMENT, CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0001110 | 3,057 served |
| BANKS WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · AL0001108 | 1,260 served |
| GOSHEN WATER WORKS DIST SYSTEM groundwater · local government · AL0001114 | 438 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 75 people were held in Pike County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 334 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 87.
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 Pike County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $35.1 million — $31.7 million to run schools, about $14,708 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.9 million local (mostly property tax), $19 million state, $8.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.8 million.
Spent $26.3 million — $22.7 million to run schools, about $12,879 per student, plus $2.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.4 million local (mostly property tax), $12.8 million state, $8 million federal. Long-term debt: $22.2 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 Pike County about $10.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
169 bridges in Pike County: 100 in good condition, 67 fair, and 2 poor (1.2%). “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.
| COUNTY ROAD 2228 over BIG CREEK · built 1940 | 75 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 2219 over LYNN MILL CREEK · built 1940 | 20 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $23.3 million of work in Pike County in fiscal 2025, about $706 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 Pike 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 Pike County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Crenshaw County (23 mi) · Bullock County (25 mi) · Coffee County (27 mi) · Barbour County (32 mi) · Montgomery County (32 mi) · Dale County (32 mi).