Coosa County area

Population and density of Coosa County

The Census Bureau estimates that 10,161 people lived in Coosa County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,472 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #62 of 67 in Alabama. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 10,392, the population has declined by 231 (−2.2%), compared with +3.3% for Alabama as a whole.

With 650.9 square miles of land, that is 16 people per square mile (6 per km²), placing Coosa County #2,453 nationally for density and #59 in Alabama. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Alabama median is 49. Put another way, there are about 41 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 Coosa County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Coosa County. Together they are home to 1,724 people (17%); the other 8,437 (83%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Goodwater town, with 1,256 residents in the county. The county seat, Rockford town, has 345 residents.

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

Metropolitan area

Coosa County is an outlying county of the Talladega-Sylacauga, AL Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 91,764 residents on 1,387.7 square miles of land; Coosa County accounts for 46.9% of the land and 11.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #123 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #48 by population. It belongs to the Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega, AL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Coosa County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

3501035046350723508935136351503515135183360263608036091

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 Coosa County

Coosa County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Shelby County (785.5 mi²) and the smallest is Clay County (604 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Coosa County forms a block of 4,805 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.5%.

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

Coosa County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.6 times as much. Alabama’s county land could hold about 78 areas the size of Coosa County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 25.5 miles (41.1 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 Coosa County?

Coosa County has more land than 1,774 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 Coosa County at #1,525 nationally by total area, 77 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 2.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.1 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 Coosa 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.