40,699 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.4% since 2020)
717 square miles of land · 57 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 Tallapoosa County in the area they serve, reporting 70,137 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ALEXANDER CITY, CITY OF surface water · local government · AL0001265 | 34,005 served |
| WALNUT HILL WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001289 | 14,127 served |
| JACKSONS GAP WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001279 | 7,008 served |
| WALL STREET WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001288 | 6,102 served |
| DADEVILLE WATER AND GAS BOARD buys surface water · local government · AL0001273 | 4,101 served |
| NEW SITE WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · AL0001283 | 2,361 served |
| EAST TALLAPOOSA WATER & SEWER BOARD buys surface water · local government · AL0001270 | 1,608 served |
| DAVISTON WATER SYSTEM, TOWN OF buys surface water · local government · AL0001274 | 825 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 163 people were held in Tallapoosa County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 646 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 157.
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 Tallapoosa County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $48 million — $37.2 million to run schools, about $12,834 per student, plus $7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.8 million local (mostly property tax), $23.7 million state, $9.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $89.8 million.
Spent $49.3 million — $37.1 million to run schools, about $13,275 per student, plus $9.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $15.8 million local (mostly property tax), $22.6 million state, $8 million federal. Long-term debt: $9.3 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 Tallapoosa County about $19.1 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.
152 bridges in Tallapoosa County: 44 in good condition, 92 fair, and 16 poor (10.5%). “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.
| SR 22 over TIMBER GUT CREEK · built 1939 | 2,618 vehicles a day |
| OAK HEIGHTS RD. over STONE CREEK · built 1928 | 2,000 vehicles a day |
| MAIN ST. over CENTRAL OF GA RAIL-ROAD · built 1930 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| PARISH ST. over BRANCH · built 1990 | 400 vehicles a day |
| Buck Creek Road over Buck Creek · built 1930 | 220 vehicles a day |
| DADE STREET over BRANCH · built 1920 | 175 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $51.1 million of work in Tallapoosa County in fiscal 2025, about $1,238 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 Tallapoosa 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 Tallapoosa County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Chambers County (24 mi) · Coosa County (26 mi) · Elmore County (27 mi) · Clay County (28 mi) · Lee County (31 mi) · Macon County (33 mi).