Hendry County area

Population and density of Hendry County

The Census Bureau estimates that 48,276 people lived in Hendry County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,047 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #44 of 67 in Florida. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 39,623, the population has grown by 8,653 (+21.8%), compared with +8.9% for Florida as a whole.

With 1,156 square miles of land, that is 42 people per square mile (16 per km²), placing Hendry County #1,713 nationally for density and #55 in Florida. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Florida median is 209. Put another way, there are about 15 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 Hendry County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Hendry County. Together they are home to 13,348 people (27.6%); the other 34,928 (72.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Clewiston city, with 7,594 residents in the county. The county seat, LaBelle city, has 5,754 residents. By land, LaBelle city is the largest at 14.5 mi². Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, LaBelle city grew fastest since then (+16.8%).

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

Metropolitan area

Hendry County is a central county of the Clewiston, FL Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 61,546 residents on 1,962.8 square miles of land; Hendry County accounts for 58.9% of the land and 78.4% 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

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Hendry County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

334403347133930339353393634142

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 Hendry County

Hendry County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Collier County (1,997 mi²) and the smallest is Lee County (781.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hendry County forms a block of 7,908.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.6%.

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

Hendry County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.1 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.7 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Florida’s county land could hold about 46 areas the size of Hendry County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 34 miles (54.7 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 Hendry County?

Hendry County has more land than 2,687 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 Hendry County at #597 nationally by total area, 62 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 2.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.6 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 Hendry 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.