Sumter County Alabama by the numbers

Peak population:  32,710 (1900)
Current population:  13,166, a loss of nearly 60% since its peak.

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau, State and County Quickfacts

Source:  CNN.  2012 election results

For Alabama's Poor, Budget Cuts Trickle Down, Limiting Access to Driver's Licences. (The New York Times, 109/2015)

As of last week, Tuscaloosa is the nearest location where a person here can get a driver’s license, after the state decided to stop providing services at 31 satellite locations around the state. The fallout from this decision has been widespread: national politicians and civil rights advocates have condemned Alabama for shuttering the locations, many of them in the state’s majority black counties, just a year after requiring that people show photo identification at the polling locations.

Source:  Alabama Driver License Offices