Schley County area

Population and density of Schley County

The Census Bureau estimates that 4,593 people lived in Schley County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,923 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #152 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 4,548, the population has grown by 45 (+1%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 166.9 square miles of land, that is 28 people per square mile (11 per km²), placing Schley County #2,082 nationally for density and #129 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 23 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 Schley County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Schley County. Together they are home to 1,529 people (33.3%); the other 3,064 (66.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Ellaville city, with 1,529 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Schley County is an outlying county of the Americus, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 33,394 residents on 649.8 square miles of land; Schley County accounts for 25.7% of the land and 13.8% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #328 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #411 by population.

ZIP codes

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

31058310683108131711317193180331806

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 Schley County

Schley County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Schley County. The largest neighbor is Sumter County (482.9 mi²) and the smallest is Marion County (365.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Schley County forms a block of 1,792.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.3%.

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

Schley County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 6.2 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 346 areas the size of Schley County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 12.9 miles (20.8 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 Schley County?

Schley County has more land than 180 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 Schley County at #3,066 nationally by total area, 24 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 0.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.6 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 Schley 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.