Evans County area

Population and density of Evans County

The Census Bureau estimates that 11,028 people lived in Evans County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,415 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #122 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 10,775, the population has grown by 253 (+2.3%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 182.9 square miles of land, that is 60 people per square mile (23 per km²), placing Evans County #1,383 nationally for density and #86 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 11 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 Evans County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Evans County. Together they are home to 3,800 people (34.5%); the other 7,228 (65.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Claxton city, with 2,560 residents in the county. By land, Hagan city is the largest at 2.044 mi².

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

Metropolitan area

Evans County is an outlying county of the Statesboro, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 97,977 residents on 858.9 square miles of land; Evans County accounts for 21.3% of the land and 11.3% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #241 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #39 by population. It belongs to the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Evans County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

30414304173042030423304273042930452

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 Evans County

Evans County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Evans County. The largest neighbor is Bulloch County (676 mi²) and the smallest is Candler County (243.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Evans County forms a block of 2,536.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 7.2%.

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

Evans County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 5.7 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 316 areas the size of Evans County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 13.5 miles (21.8 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 Evans County?

Evans County has more land than 195 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 Evans County at #3,044 nationally by total area, 17 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 2.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1 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 Evans 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.