Brantley County area

Population and density of Brantley County

The Census Bureau estimates that 18,936 people lived in Brantley County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,941 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #99 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 18,024, the population has grown by 912 (+5.1%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 443.2 square miles of land, that is 43 people per square mile (16 per km²), placing Brantley County #1,693 nationally for density and #102 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. 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 Brantley County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Brantley County. Together they are home to 1,569 people (8.3%); the other 17,367 (91.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Nahunta city, with 1,059 residents in the county. By land, Hoboken city is the largest at 3.428 mi².

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

Metropolitan area

Brantley County is an outlying county of the Brunswick-St. Simons, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 118,524 residents on 1,294.2 square miles of land; Brantley County accounts for 34.2% of the land and 16% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #242 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #340 by population.

ZIP codes

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

315033154231543315533155731566

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 Brantley County

Brantley County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Ware County (899.4 mi²) and the smallest is Pierce County (340.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Brantley County forms a block of 4,154.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 10.7%.

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

Brantley County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.3 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 130 areas the size of Brantley County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 21.1 miles (33.9 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 Brantley County?

Brantley County has more land than 930 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 Brantley County at #2,353 nationally by total area, 61 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 0.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 percentage points lower. 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 Brantley 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.