Nassau County area

Population and density of Nassau County

The Census Bureau estimates that 106,879 people lived in Nassau County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #595 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #37 of 67 in Florida. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 90,359, the population has grown by 16,520 (+18.3%), compared with +8.9% for Florida as a whole.

With 648.7 square miles of land, that is 165 people per square mile (64 per km²), placing Nassau County #726 nationally for density and #36 in Florida. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Florida median is 209. Put another way, there are about 3.9 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 Nassau County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Nassau County. Together they are home to 18,860 people (17.6%); the other 88,019 (82.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Fernandina Beach city, with 13,869 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Callahan town grew fastest since then (+19%).

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

Metropolitan area

Nassau County is an outlying county of the Jacksonville, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 5 county equivalents have 1,785,500 residents on 3,201.9 square miles of land; Nassau County accounts for 20.3% of the land and 6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #95 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #39 by population. It belongs to the Jacksonville-Kingsland-Palatka, FL-GA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

320093201132034320463209732234

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 Nassau County

Nassau County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents, including 2 in Georgia. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Charlton County (780.1 mi²) and the smallest is Baker County (585.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Nassau County forms a block of 3,407 mi² of land, of which it holds 19%.

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

Nassau County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.6 times as much. Florida’s county land could hold about 83 areas the size of Nassau County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 25.5 miles (41 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 Nassau County?

Nassau County has more land than 1,769 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 Nassau County at #1,335 nationally by total area, 118 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 10.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 9.5 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 Nassau 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.