Quitman County area

Population and density of Quitman County

The Census Bureau estimates that 2,254 people lived in Quitman County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #3,100 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #158 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 2,237, the population has grown by 17 (+0.8%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 151.2 square miles of land, that is 15 people per square mile (5.8 per km²), placing Quitman County #2,478 nationally for density and #150 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 43 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 Quitman County

Every resident of Quitman County lives within Georgetown-Quitman County unified government. The city and the county equivalent cover the same territory, 151.2 square miles of land in the 2026 place Gazetteer, so there are no separate towns or unincorporated areas to list.

Metropolitan area

Quitman County is an outlying county of the Eufaula, AL-GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 26,861 residents on 1,036.3 square miles of land; Quitman County accounts for 14.6% of the land and 8.4% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #173 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #463 by population.

ZIP codes

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

3985439867

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 Quitman County

Quitman County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents, including 1 in Alabama. Each of them has more land than Quitman County. The largest neighbor is Barbour County (885 mi²) and the smallest is Clay County (195.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Quitman County forms a block of 2,118.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 7.1%.

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

Quitman County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 6.8 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 382 areas the size of Quitman County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 12.3 miles (19.8 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 Quitman County?

Quitman County has more land than 163 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 Quitman County at #3,073 nationally by total area, 14 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 5.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 4.6 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 Quitman 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.