Baldwin County area

Population and density of Baldwin County

The Census Bureau estimates that 44,029 people lived in Baldwin County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,136 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #50 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 43,795, the population has grown by 234 (+0.5%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 258.7 square miles of land, that is 170 people per square mile (66 per km²), placing Baldwin County #704 nationally for density and #40 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 3.8 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 Baldwin County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Baldwin County. Together they are home to 16,835 people (38.2%); the other 27,194 (61.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Milledgeville city, with 16,835 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Baldwin County is a central county of the Milledgeville, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Baldwin County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 258.7 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #527 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #285 by population.

ZIP codes

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

31031310333103431061310623108231087

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 Baldwin County

Baldwin County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Baldwin County. The largest neighbor is Washington County (678.5 mi²) and the smallest is Putnam County (344.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Baldwin County forms a block of 2,596.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 10%.

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

Baldwin County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 4 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 223 areas the size of Baldwin County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 16.1 miles (25.9 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 Baldwin County?

Baldwin County has more land than 333 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 Baldwin County at #2,905 nationally by total area, 16 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 3.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.4 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 Baldwin 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.