Crawford County area

Population and density of Crawford County

The Census Bureau estimates that 12,206 people lived in Crawford County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,341 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #114 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 12,131, the population has grown by 75 (+0.6%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 324.9 square miles of land, that is 38 people per square mile (15 per km²), placing Crawford County #1,809 nationally for density and #113 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 17 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 Crawford County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Crawford County. Together they are home to 766 people (6.3%); the other 11,440 (93.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Roberta city, with 766 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Crawford County is an outlying county of the Macon-Bibb County, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 5 county equivalents have 238,553 residents on 1,723.6 square miles of land; Crawford County accounts for 18.9% of the land and 5.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #184 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #205 by population. It belongs to the Macon-Bibb County--Warner Robins, GA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Crawford County; 3 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

31008310163103031050310523106631078

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 Crawford County

Crawford County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Monroe County (396.1 mi²) and the smallest is Peach County (150.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Crawford County forms a block of 1,820.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 17.8%.

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

Crawford County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.2 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 178 areas the size of Crawford County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 18 miles (29 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 Crawford County?

Crawford County has more land than 472 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 Crawford County at #2,794 nationally by total area, 44 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 0.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.7 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 Crawford 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.