Twiggs County area

Population and density of Twiggs County

The Census Bureau estimates that 7,597 people lived in Twiggs County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,675 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #142 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 8,028, the population has declined by 431 (−5.4%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 359.3 square miles of land, that is 21 people per square mile (8.2 per km²), placing Twiggs County #2,282 nationally for density and #139 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 30 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 Twiggs County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Twiggs County. Together they are home to 1,104 people (14.5%); the other 6,493 (85.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Jeffersonville city, with 907 residents in the county. By land, Allentown city is the largest at 4.845 mi² across all its counties.

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

Metropolitan area

Twiggs County is an outlying county of the Macon-Bibb County, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 5 county equivalents have 238,553 residents on 1,723.6 square miles of land; Twiggs County accounts for 20.8% of the land and 3.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #184 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #205 by population. It belongs to the Macon-Bibb County--Warner Robins, GA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

310143101731020310313104431217

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 Twiggs County

Twiggs County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Wilkinson County (449.2 mi²) and the smallest is Bleckley County (215.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Twiggs County forms a block of 2,043.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 17.6%.

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

Twiggs County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.9 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 161 areas the size of Twiggs County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19 miles (30.5 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 Twiggs County?

Twiggs County has more land than 565 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 Twiggs County at #2,704 nationally by total area, 47 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 0.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.2 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 Twiggs 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.