Moffat County area

Population and density of Moffat County

The Census Bureau estimates that 13,122 people lived in Moffat County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,288 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #35 of 64 in Colorado. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 13,293, the population has declined by 171 (−1.3%), compared with +4.1% for Colorado as a whole.

With 4,743.3 square miles of land, that is 2.8 people per square mile (1.1 per km²), placing Moffat County #3,001 nationally for density and #52 in Colorado. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Colorado median is 11. Put another way, there are about 231 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 Moffat County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Moffat County. Together they are home to 9,116 people (69.5%); the other 4,006 (30.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Craig city, with 8,874 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Moffat County is an outlying county of the Steamboat Springs, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 38,451 residents on 7,105.3 square miles of land; Moffat County accounts for 66.8% of the land and 34.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #9 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #342 by population.

ZIP codes

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

81610816258163381638816408164181653

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 Moffat County

Moffat County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 4 in Wyoming and Utah. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Sweetwater County (10,427 mi²) and the smallest is Daggett County (696.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Moffat County forms a block of 33,830.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 14%.

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

Moffat County has more land than 2 of the 50 states. It is about 2.4 times the land area of Delaware (1,948.6 mi²), while Connecticut, the next larger state, has 1 times as much land (4,842.5 mi²). Colorado’s county land could hold about 22 areas the size of Moffat County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 68.9 miles (110.8 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 Moffat County?

Moffat County has more land than 3,131 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 Moffat County at #98 nationally by total area, 7 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 0.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1 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 Moffat 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.