[2] Ray Albright (1934-2017), Tennessee state legislator and businessman, was born in Paint Rock.

[5] The town is situated along the Paint Rock River in a relatively narrow valley between Keel Mountain to the west and the Cumberland Plateau to the east.

The Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge is located along the base of the Cumberland Plateau just east of Paint Rock.

U.S. Route 72 passes through Paint Rock, connecting the town with Scottsboro to the east and Huntsville to the west.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2), all land.

About 8.3% of families and 10.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under the age of eighteen or sixty-five or over.