Glades County area

Population and density of Glades County

The Census Bureau estimates that 13,270 people lived in Glades County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,279 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #64 of 67 in Florida. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 12,128, the population has grown by 1,142 (+9.4%), compared with +8.9% for Florida as a whole.

With 806.8 square miles of land, that is 16 people per square mile (6.4 per km²), placing Glades County #2,431 nationally for density and #65 in Florida. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Florida median is 209. Put another way, there are about 39 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 Glades County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Glades County. Together they are home to 1,745 people (13.1%); the other 11,525 (86.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Moore Haven city, with 1,745 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Glades County is an outlying county of the Clewiston, FL Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 61,546 residents on 1,962.8 square miles of land; Glades County accounts for 41.1% of the land and 21.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #82 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #156 by population. It belongs to the Cape Coral-Fort Myers-Naples, FL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Glades County; 3 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

3347133935339443396034974

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 Glades County

Glades County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Hendry County (1,156 mi²) and the smallest is Charlotte County (681.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Glades County forms a block of 4,430.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 18.2%.

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

Glades County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.3 times as much. Florida’s county land could hold about 67 areas the size of Glades County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 28.4 miles (45.7 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 Glades County?

Glades County has more land than 2,168 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 Glades County at #789 nationally by total area, 265 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 18.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 17.1 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 Glades 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.