Chattahoochee County area

Population and density of Chattahoochee County

The Census Bureau estimates that 8,465 people lived in Chattahoochee County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,618 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #137 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 9,568, the population has declined by 1,103 (−11.5%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 248.7 square miles of land, that is 34 people per square mile (13 per km²), placing Chattahoochee County #1,892 nationally for density and #117 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 19 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 Chattahoochee County

Every resident of Chattahoochee County lives within Cusseta-Chattahoochee County unified government. The city and the county equivalent cover the same territory, 248.7 square miles of land in the 2026 place Gazetteer, so there are no separate towns or unincorporated areas to list.

Metropolitan area

Chattahoochee County is a central county of the Columbus, GA-AL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 7 county equivalents have 324,830 residents on 2,786.1 square miles of land; Chattahoochee County accounts for 8.9% of the land and 2.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #108 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #164 by population. It belongs to the Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

3180531905

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 Chattahoochee County

Chattahoochee County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 1 in Alabama. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Russell County (641.2 mi²) and the smallest is Muscogee County (216.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Chattahoochee County forms a block of 2,322.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 10.7%.

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

Chattahoochee County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 4.2 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 232 areas the size of Chattahoochee County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 15.8 miles (25.4 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 Chattahoochee County?

Chattahoochee County has more land than 305 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 Chattahoochee County at #2,951 nationally by total area, 34 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 1%, 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 Chattahoochee 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.