Long County area

Population and density of Long County

The Census Bureau estimates that 21,557 people lived in Long County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,802 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #85 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 16,150, the population has grown by 5,407 (+33.5%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 400.4 square miles of land, that is 54 people per square mile (21 per km²), placing Long County #1,480 nationally for density and #93 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 12 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 Long County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Long County. Together they are home to 1,933 people (9%); the other 19,624 (91%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Ludowici city, with 1,933 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Long County is an outlying county of the Hinesville, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 91,870 residents on 916.9 square miles of land; Long County accounts for 43.7% of the land and 23.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #291 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #376 by population. It belongs to the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Long County; 1 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

3042731301313133131631323

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 Long County

Long County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Long County. The largest neighbor is Wayne County (641.8 mi²) and the smallest is McIntosh County (431.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Long County forms a block of 2,470.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.2%.

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

Long County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.6 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 144 areas the size of Long County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20 miles (32.2 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 Long County?

Long County has more land than 695 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 Long County at #2,586 nationally by total area, 59 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 0.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 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 Long 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.