Bryan County area

Population and density of Bryan County

The Census Bureau estimates that 52,062 people lived in Bryan County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #996 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #42 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 44,741, the population has grown by 7,321 (+16.4%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 437.6 square miles of land, that is 119 people per square mile (46 per km²), placing Bryan County #877 nationally for density and #55 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 5.4 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 Bryan County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Bryan County. Together they are home to 22,728 people (43.7%); the other 29,334 (56.3%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Richmond Hill city, with 20,022 residents in the county. The county seat, Pembroke city, has 2,706 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Richmond Hill city grew fastest since then (+21.4%).

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

Metropolitan area

Bryan County is a central county of the Savannah, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 438,314 residents on 1,349.2 square miles of land; Bryan County accounts for 32.4% of the land and 11.9% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #238 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #127 by population. It belongs to the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

313083132131324

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 Bryan County

Bryan County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Bulloch County (676 mi²) and the smallest is Evans County (182.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Bryan County forms a block of 2,724.6 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.1%.

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

Bryan County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.4 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 132 areas the size of Bryan County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20.9 miles (33.7 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 Bryan County?

Bryan County has more land than 910 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 Bryan County at #2,327 nationally by total area, 15 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 3.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.5 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 Bryan 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.