Barbour County area

Population and density of Barbour County

The Census Bureau estimates that 24,607 people lived in Barbour County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,680 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #41 of 67 in Alabama. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 25,225, the population has declined by 618 (−2.4%), compared with +3.3% for Alabama as a whole.

With 885 square miles of land, that is 28 people per square mile (11 per km²), placing Barbour County #2,069 nationally for density and #47 in Alabama. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Alabama median is 49. Put another way, there are about 23 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 Barbour County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Barbour County. Together they are home to 16,504 people (67.1%); the other 8,103 (32.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Eufaula city, with 12,437 residents in the county. The county seat, Clayton city, has 2,195 residents.

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

Metropolitan area

Barbour County is a central county of the Eufaula, AL-GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 26,861 residents on 1,036.3 square miles of land; Barbour County accounts for 85.4% of the land and 91.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #173 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #463 by population.

ZIP codes

9 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Barbour County; 5 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

360053601636017360273604836053363113631736374

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 Barbour County

Barbour County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents, including 3 in Georgia. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Pike County (672.1 mi²) and the smallest is Quitman County (151.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Barbour County forms a block of 4,749.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 18.6%.

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

Barbour County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.2 times as much. Alabama’s county land could hold about 57 areas the size of Barbour County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29.7 miles (47.9 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 Barbour County?

Barbour County has more land than 2,322 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 Barbour County at #953 nationally by total area, 53 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 2.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1 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 Barbour 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.