Levy County area

Population and density of Levy County

The Census Bureau estimates that 48,520 people lived in Levy County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,044 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #43 of 67 in Florida. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 42,912, the population has grown by 5,608 (+13.1%), compared with +8.9% for Florida as a whole.

With 1,118.3 square miles of land, that is 43 people per square mile (17 per km²), placing Levy County #1,679 nationally for density and #53 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 Levy County

8 incorporated places lie at least partly in Levy County. Together they are home to 11,146 people (23%); the other 37,374 (77%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Williston city, with 3,456 residents in the county. The county seat, Bronson town, has 1,292 residents. By land, Yankeetown town is the largest at 7.73 mi². Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Williston city grew fastest since then (+16.8%).

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

Metropolitan area

Levy County is an outlying county of the Gainesville, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 359,036 residents on 2,343.6 square miles of land; Levy County accounts for 47.7% of the land and 13.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #140 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #158 by population. It belongs to the Gainesville-Lake City, FL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

32618326213262532626326393266832669326833269332696344313444934498

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 Levy County

Levy County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Marion County (1,588.4 mi²) and the smallest is Gilchrist County (349.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Levy County forms a block of 5,219.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 21.4%.

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

Levy 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 48 areas the size of Levy County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 33.4 miles (53.8 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 Levy County?

Levy County has more land than 2,660 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 Levy County at #422 nationally by total area, 140 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 29.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 28.5 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 Levy 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.