Brooks County area

Population and density of Brooks County

The Census Bureau estimates that 16,101 people lived in Brooks County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,099 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #107 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 16,304, the population has declined by 203 (−1.2%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 493.2 square miles of land, that is 33 people per square mile (13 per km²), placing Brooks County #1,926 nationally for density and #119 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 20 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 Brooks County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Brooks County. Together they are home to 4,861 people (30.2%); the other 11,240 (69.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Quitman city, with 4,032 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Brooks County is an outlying county of the Valdosta, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 153,276 residents on 1,607.4 square miles of land; Brooks County accounts for 30.7% of the land and 10.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #204 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #292 by population.

ZIP codes

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

31601316023162531626316293163831643317203177831788

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 Brooks County

Brooks County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 2 in Florida. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Madison County (696.5 mi²) and the smallest is Cook County (228.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Brooks County forms a block of 3,605.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.7%.

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

Brooks County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.1 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 117 areas the size of Brooks County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 22.2 miles (35.7 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 Brooks County?

Brooks County has more land than 1,115 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 Brooks County at #2,192 nationally by total area, 85 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% — 0.2 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 Brooks 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.