Coffee County area

Population and density of Coffee County

The Census Bureau estimates that 44,407 people lived in Coffee County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,125 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #49 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 43,089, the population has grown by 1,318 (+3.1%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 592.3 square miles of land, that is 75 people per square mile (29 per km²), placing Coffee County #1,210 nationally for density and #77 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 8.5 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 Coffee County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Coffee County. Together they are home to 16,608 people (37.4%); the other 27,799 (62.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Douglas city, with 11,864 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Nicholls city grew fastest since then (+5%).

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

Metropolitan area

Coffee County is a central county of the Douglas, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 52,861 residents on 935 square miles of land; Coffee County accounts for 63.3% of the land and 84% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #201 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #206 by population.

ZIP codes

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

31512315193153331535315523155431567316243165031798

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 Coffee County

Coffee County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents. It has more land than 7 of them. The largest neighbor is Ware County (899.4 mi²) and the smallest is Ben Hill County (250.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Coffee County forms a block of 3,944.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 15%.

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

Coffee County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.7 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 97 areas the size of Coffee County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 24.3 miles (39.2 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 Coffee County?

Coffee County has more land than 1,568 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 Coffee County at #1,732 nationally by total area, 78 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 1.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.6 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 Coffee 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.