Sumter County area

Population and density of Sumter County

The Census Bureau estimates that 28,801 people lived in Sumter County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,525 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #68 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 29,614, the population has declined by 813 (−2.7%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 482.9 square miles of land, that is 60 people per square mile (23 per km²), placing Sumter County #1,390 nationally for density and #87 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 Sumter County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Sumter County. Together they are home to 16,839 people (58.5%); the other 11,962 (41.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Americus city, with 15,617 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Sumter County is a central county of the Americus, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 33,394 residents on 649.8 square miles of land; Sumter County accounts for 74.3% of the land and 86.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #328 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #411 by population.

ZIP codes

8 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Sumter County; 6 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

3170931711317193173531743317643178031787

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 Sumter County

Sumter County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Macon County (400.7 mi²) and the smallest is Schley County (166.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Sumter County forms a block of 2,982.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.2%.

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

Sumter County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.1 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 120 areas the size of Sumter County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 22 miles (35.4 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 Sumter County?

Sumter County has more land than 1,077 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 Sumter County at #2,212 nationally by total area, 67 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%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.8 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 Sumter 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.