Lauderdale County area

Population and density of Lauderdale County

The Census Bureau estimates that 97,135 people lived in Lauderdale County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #648 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #16 of 67 in Alabama. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 93,566, the population has grown by 3,569 (+3.8%), compared with +3.3% for Alabama as a whole.

With 668 square miles of land, that is 145 people per square mile (56 per km²), placing Lauderdale County #793 nationally for density and #17 in Alabama. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Alabama median is 49. Put another way, there are about 4.4 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 Lauderdale County

7 incorporated places lie at least partly in Lauderdale County. Together they are home to 46,977 people (48.4%); the other 50,158 (51.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Florence city, with 42,581 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Rogersville town grew fastest since then (+12%).

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

Metropolitan area

Lauderdale County is a central county of the Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 156,609 residents on 1,261 square miles of land; Lauderdale County accounts for 53% of the land and 62% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #249 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #287 by population. It belongs to the Florence-Muscle Shoals-Russellville, AL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

35610356143563035632356333563435645356483565235677

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 Lauderdale County

Lauderdale County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents, including 5 in Tennessee and Mississippi. It has more land than 6 of them. The largest neighbor is Wayne County (734.1 mi²) and the smallest is Tishomingo County (424.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Lauderdale County forms a block of 5,479 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.2%.

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

Lauderdale County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.5 times as much. Alabama’s county land could hold about 76 areas the size of Lauderdale County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 25.8 miles (41.6 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 Lauderdale County?

Lauderdale County has more land than 1,813 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 Lauderdale County at #1,367 nationally by total area, 42 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 7.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 6 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 Lauderdale 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.