Camden County area

Population and density of Camden County

The Census Bureau estimates that 60,143 people lived in Camden County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #902 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #41 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 54,769, the population has grown by 5,374 (+9.8%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 630.3 square miles of land, that is 95 people per square mile (37 per km²), placing Camden County #1,027 nationally for density and #62 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 6.7 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 Camden County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Camden County. Together they are home to 42,929 people (71.4%); the other 17,214 (28.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Kingsland city, with 21,299 residents in the county. The county seat, Woodbine city, has 1,084 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Kingsland city grew fastest since then (+16.9%).

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

Metropolitan area

Camden County is a central county of the Kingsland, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Camden County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 630.3 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #339 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #163 by population. It belongs to the Jacksonville-Kingsland-Palatka, FL-GA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

3153731547315483155831565315663156831569

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 Camden County

Camden County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents, including 1 in Florida. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Charlton County (780.1 mi²) and the smallest is Glynn County (419.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Camden County forms a block of 2,922 mi² of land, of which it holds 21.6%.

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

Camden County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.6 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 92 areas the size of Camden County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 25.1 miles (40.4 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 Camden County?

Camden County has more land than 1,699 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 Camden County at #1,215 nationally by total area, 308 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 19.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 18.2 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 Camden 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.