Houston County area

Population and density of Houston County

The Census Bureau estimates that 178,214 people lived in Houston County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #395 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #14 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 163,630, the population has grown by 14,584 (+8.9%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 376.2 square miles of land, that is 474 people per square mile (183 per km²), placing Houston County #353 nationally for density and #21 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 1.4 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 Houston County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Houston County. Together they are home to 122,217 people (68.6%); the other 55,997 (31.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Warner Robins city, with 87,121 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county). The county seat, Perry city, has 25,591 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Perry city grew fastest since then (+24.8%).

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

Metropolitan area

Houston County is a central county of the Warner Robins, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 208,091 residents on 526.4 square miles of land; Houston County accounts for 71.5% of the land and 85.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #353 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #231 by population. It belongs to the Macon-Bibb County--Warner Robins, GA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

12 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Houston County; 8 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

310053100831025310283103031036310473106931088310913109331098

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 Houston County

Houston County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than 5 of them. The largest neighbor is Macon County (400.7 mi²) and the smallest is Peach County (150.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Houston County forms a block of 2,393.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 15.7%.

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

Houston County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.7 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 153 areas the size of Houston County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19.4 miles (31.2 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 Houston County?

Houston County has more land than 606 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 Houston County at #2,659 nationally by total area, 43 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 Houston 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.