Teller County area

Population and density of Teller County

The Census Bureau estimates that 24,756 people lived in Teller County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,674 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #24 of 64 in Colorado. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 24,708, the population has grown by 48 (+0.2%), compared with +4.1% for Colorado as a whole.

With 557.1 square miles of land, that is 44 people per square mile (17 per km²), placing Teller County #1,658 nationally for density and #14 in Colorado. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Colorado median is 11. Put another way, there are about 14 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 Teller County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Teller County. Together they are home to 9,518 people (38.4%); the other 15,238 (61.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Woodland Park city, with 8,014 residents in the county. The county seat, Cripple Creek city, has 1,120 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Woodland Park city grew fastest since then (+1.3%).

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

Metropolitan area

Teller County is an outlying county of the Colorado Springs, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 781,796 residents on 2,683.6 square miles of land; Teller County accounts for 20.8% of the land and 3.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #118 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #80 by population.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Teller County; 5 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 Teller County

Teller County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Teller County. The largest neighbor is Park County (2,193.5 mi²) and the smallest is Douglas County (840.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Teller County forms a block of 7,251 mi² of land, of which it holds 7.7%.

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

Teller County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.9 times as much. Colorado’s county land could hold about 186 areas the size of Teller County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 23.6 miles (38 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 Teller County?

Teller County has more land than 1,362 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 Teller County at #1,975 nationally by total area, 115 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 0.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.8 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 Teller 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.