Echols County area

Population and density of Echols County

The Census Bureau estimates that 3,685 people lived in Echols County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,985 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #153 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 3,701, the population has declined by 16 (−0.4%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 420.4 square miles of land, that is 8.8 people per square mile (3.4 per km²), placing Echols County #2,688 nationally for density and #156 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 73 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 Echols County

Every resident of Echols County lives within Echols County consolidated government. The city and the county equivalent cover the same territory, 420.4 square miles of land in the 2026 place Gazetteer, so there are no separate towns or unincorporated areas to list.

Metropolitan area

Echols County is an outlying county of the Valdosta, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 153,276 residents on 1,607.4 square miles of land; Echols County accounts for 26.2% of the land and 2.4% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #204 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #292 by population.

ZIP codes

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

316063163031631316363164831649

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 Echols County

Echols County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 2 in Florida. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Clinch County (815 mi²) and the smallest is Lanier County (196.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Echols County forms a block of 3,240.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 13%.

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

Echols County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.5 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 137 areas the size of Echols County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20.5 miles (33 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 Echols County?

Echols County has more land than 812 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 Echols County at #2,488 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 0.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.1 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 Echols 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.