241,212 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.7% since 2020)
1,321 square miles of land · 183 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.
10 active community water systems list Tuscaloosa County in the area they serve, reporting 272,754 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TUSCALOOSA WATER & SEWER surface water · local government · AL0001313 | 166,524 served |
| NORTHPORT WATER WORKS, CITY OF surface water · local government · AL0001307 | 40,551 served |
| CARROLLS CREEK, WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001540 | 16,248 served |
| CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC. buys surface water · local government · AL0001293 | 15,096 served |
| MITCHELL WATER SYSTEM INC buys surface water · local government · AL0001306 | 8,730 served |
| ENGLEWOOD-HULLS WATER SYSTEM, INC. buys surface water · local government · AL0001301 | 7,077 served |
| FOSTERS-RALPH WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001302 | 6,015 served |
| COKER WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0001299 | 5,118 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 704 people were held in Tuscaloosa County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 432 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 578.
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 Tuscaloosa County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $267.8 million — $224.1 million to run schools, about $11,566 per student, plus $38 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $74.5 million local (mostly property tax), $152.5 million state, $35.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $98.4 million.
Spent $173.1 million — $159.3 million to run schools, about $14,241 per student, plus $4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $72.7 million local (mostly property tax), $79.6 million state, $30.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $181.7 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Tuscaloosa County about $83.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
481 bridges in Tuscaloosa County: 206 in good condition, 273 fair, and 2 poor (0.4%). “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.
| US 11 over NORFOLK & SO. RR Active · built 1955 | 9,300 vehicles a day |
| DEASON ROAD over MILL CREEK · built 1900 | 120 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $236.7 million of work in Tuscaloosa County in fiscal 2025, about $1,043 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 Tuscaloosa 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 Tuscaloosa County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Bibb County (30 mi) · Fayette County (33 mi) · Pickens County (33 mi) · Walker County (37 mi) · Hale County (38 mi) · Greene County (40 mi).