Elmore County area

Population and density of Elmore County

The Census Bureau estimates that 91,577 people lived in Elmore County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #671 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #18 of 67 in Alabama. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 87,976, the population has grown by 3,601 (+4.1%), compared with +3.3% for Alabama as a whole.

With 618.5 square miles of land, that is 148 people per square mile (57 per km²), placing Elmore County #781 nationally for density and #16 in Alabama. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Alabama median is 49. Put another way, there are about 4.3 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 Elmore County

8 incorporated places lie at least partly in Elmore County. Together they are home to 35,666 people (38.9%); the other 55,911 (61.1%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Millbrook city, with 17,209 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county). The county seat, Wetumpka city, has 7,535 residents. By land, Prattville city is the largest at 35.9 mi² across all its counties. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Elmore town grew fastest since then (+17.3%).

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

Metropolitan area

Elmore County is a central county of the Montgomery, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 388,747 residents on 2,714.4 square miles of land; Elmore County accounts for 22.8% of the land and 23.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #113 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #146 by population. It belongs to the Montgomery-Selma, AL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

13 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Elmore County; 9 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 Elmore County

Elmore County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Montgomery County (785.4 mi²) and the smallest is Autauga County (594.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Elmore County forms a block of 4,667.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.3%.

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

Elmore County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.7 times as much. Alabama’s county land could hold about 82 areas the size of Elmore County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 24.9 miles (40 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 Elmore County?

Elmore County has more land than 1,665 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 Elmore County at #1,552 nationally by total area, 5 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 5.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 4.7 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 Elmore 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.