Alabama Counties
Complete list of all 67 counties in Alabama with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.
Labeled outline map of Alabama counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.
All 67 Alabama counties
| County | County Seat | Population ▼ | Area | Median Income | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson | — | 670,680 | 1,111 mi² | $72,801 | 29 |
| Mobile | — | 413,004 | 1,229 mi² | $60,663 | 19 |
| Madison | — | 409,415 | 802 mi² | $89,356 | 14 |
| Shelby | — | 261,343 | 785 mi² | $100,962 | 17 |
| Baldwin | — | 247,003 | 1,590 mi² | $79,405 | 22 |
| Montgomery | — | 224,830 | 784 mi² | $62,025 | 8 |
| Tuscaloosa | — | 223,795 | 1,322 mi² | $65,413 | 17 |
| Lee | — | 172,668 | 608 mi² | $63,649 | 7 |
| Morgan | — | 118,974 | 579 mi² | $69,122 | 7 |
| Houston | — | 108,871 | 580 mi² | $58,530 | 8 |
| Calhoun | — | 108,320 | 606 mi² | $58,613 | 10 |
| Limestone | — | 107,376 | 560 mi² | $88,216 | 8 |
| Etowah | — | 106,730 | 535 mi² | $55,236 | 7 |
| Marshall | — | 106,464 | 566 mi² | $61,299 | 9 |
| Lauderdale | — | 96,265 | 668 mi² | $65,900 | 7 |
How many counties does Alabama have?
Alabama has 67 counties covering 50,650 square miles and roughly 5,086,600 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1819 as the 22nd state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.
The largest county by land area is Baldwin County at 1,590 square miles, home to about 247,003 residents. The most populous is Jefferson County with approximately 670,680 residents — a density of about 604 people per square mile.
At the other end of the scale, Greene County has only about 7,212 residents.
Alabama’s capital is Montgomery, while the largest city is Huntsville — a common pattern in the United States, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.
Related resources
Download a printable outline of Alabama’s county boundaries from our blank map of Alabama page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.
Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Alabama county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.
For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Alabama address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.
Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Alabama specifically: the 100-mile radius around Montgomery measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Alabama ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Alabama’s 67 counties in national context.
Frequently asked questions
Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.