Geneva County area

Population and density of Geneva County

The Census Bureau estimates that 27,554 people lived in Geneva County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,570 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #39 of 67 in Alabama. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 26,658, the population has grown by 896 (+3.4%), compared with +3.3% for Alabama as a whole.

With 574.5 square miles of land, that is 48 people per square mile (19 per km²), placing Geneva County #1,593 nationally for density and #35 in Alabama. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Alabama median is 49. Put another way, there are about 13 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 Geneva County

8 incorporated places lie at least partly in Geneva County. Together they are home to 13,387 people (48.6%); the other 14,167 (51.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Geneva city, with 4,307 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Slocomb city grew fastest since then (+6.5%).

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

Metropolitan area

Geneva County is an outlying county of the Dothan, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 156,266 residents on 1,716.2 square miles of land; Geneva County accounts for 33.5% of the land and 17.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #185 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #288 by population. It belongs to the Dothan-Enterprise-Ozark, AL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

14 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Geneva County; 8 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

3630136305363133631436316363183632236340363443635236375364423645336477

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 Geneva County

Geneva County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents, including 3 in Florida. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Walton County (1,038.4 mi²) and the smallest is Holmes County (478.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Geneva County forms a block of 5,860.6 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.8%.

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

Geneva County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.8 times as much. Alabama’s county land could hold about 88 areas the size of Geneva County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 24 miles (38.6 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 Geneva County?

Geneva County has more land than 1,488 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 Geneva County at #1,839 nationally by total area, 105 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 0.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.4 percentage points lower. 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 Geneva 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.