Baldwin County area

Population and density of Baldwin County

The Census Bureau estimates that 267,761 people lived in Baldwin County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #277 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #4 of 67 in Alabama. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 231,778, the population has grown by 35,983 (+15.5%), compared with +3.3% for Alabama as a whole.

With 1,589.9 square miles of land, that is 168 people per square mile (65 per km²), placing Baldwin County #712 nationally for density and #14 in Alabama. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Alabama median is 49. Put another way, there are about 3.8 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Baldwin County

14 incorporated places lie at least partly in Baldwin County. Together they are home to 156,120 people (58.3%); the other 111,641 (41.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Daphne city, with 31,396 residents in the county. The county seat, Bay Minette city, has 8,555 residents. By land, Foley city is the largest at 35.3 mi². Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Loxley city grew fastest since then (+72.5%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Baldwin County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Baldwin County is a central county of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Baldwin County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the metro area has the same 1,589.9 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #208 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #190 by population. It belongs to the Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope, AL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

24 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Baldwin County; 23 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

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ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Baldwin County

Baldwin County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 1 in Florida. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Clarke County (1,238.4 mi²) and the smallest is Escambia County (657 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Baldwin County forms a block of 7,766.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 20.5%.

How big is Baldwin County compared with U.S. states?

Baldwin County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.5 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.2 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Alabama’s county land could hold about 32 areas the size of Baldwin County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 39.9 miles (64.2 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Baldwin County?

Baldwin County has more land than 2,842 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Baldwin County at #315 nationally by total area, 65 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 21.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 20.4 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Baldwin County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.