Wakulla County area

Population and density of Wakulla County

The Census Bureau estimates that 38,089 people lived in Wakulla County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,260 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #48 of 67 in Florida. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 33,763, the population has grown by 4,326 (+12.8%), compared with +8.9% for Florida as a whole.

With 606.4 square miles of land, that is 63 people per square mile (24 per km²), placing Wakulla County #1,355 nationally for density and #46 in Florida. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Florida median is 209. Put another way, there are about 10 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 Wakulla County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Wakulla County. Together they are home to 807 people (2.1%); the other 37,282 (97.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Sopchoppy city, with 487 residents in the county. By land, St. Marks city is the largest at 1.959 mi².

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

Metropolitan area

Wakulla County is an outlying county of the Tallahassee, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 397,442 residents on 2,389.3 square miles of land; Wakulla County accounts for 25.4% of the land and 9.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #136 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #144 by population. It belongs to the Tallahassee-Bainbridge, FL-GA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Wakulla County, and each lies mostly inside the county.

32327323463235532358

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Wakulla County

Wakulla County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Liberty County (835.6 mi²) and the smallest is Franklin County (545 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Wakulla County forms a block of 3,253.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 18.6%.

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

Wakulla County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.7 times as much. Florida’s county land could hold about 88 areas the size of Wakulla County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 24.6 miles (39.6 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 Wakulla County?

Wakulla County has more land than 1,617 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 Wakulla County at #909 nationally by total area, 696 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 33.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 32.7 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 Wakulla 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.