Toombs County area

Population and density of Toombs County

The Census Bureau estimates that 27,545 people lived in Toombs County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,571 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #73 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 27,024, the population has grown by 521 (+1.9%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 364 square miles of land, that is 76 people per square mile (29 per km²), placing Toombs County #1,204 nationally for density and #76 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 8.5 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 Toombs County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Toombs County. Together they are home to 15,211 people (55.2%); the other 12,334 (44.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Vidalia city, with 10,749 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county). The county seat, Lyons city, has 4,260 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Vidalia city grew fastest since then (+1.8%).

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

Metropolitan area

Toombs County is a central county of the Vidalia, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 36,180 residents on 605.2 square miles of land; Toombs County accounts for 60.2% of the land and 76.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #351 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #381 by population.

ZIP codes

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Toombs County, and each lies mostly inside the county.

304363047330474

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Toombs County

Toombs County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Emanuel County (680.6 mi²) and the smallest is Montgomery County (241.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Toombs County forms a block of 2,605.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 14%.

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

Toombs County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.8 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 159 areas the size of Toombs County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19.1 miles (30.7 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 Toombs County?

Toombs County has more land than 578 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 Toombs County at #2,686 nationally by total area, 42 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 1.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.7 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 Toombs 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.