Webster County area

Population and density of Webster County

The Census Bureau estimates that 2,369 people lived in Webster County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #3,088 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #157 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 2,349, the population has grown by 20 (+0.9%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 209.7 square miles of land, that is 11 people per square mile (4.4 per km²), placing Webster County #2,596 nationally for density and #154 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 57 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 Webster County

Every resident of Webster County lives within Webster County unified government. The city and the county equivalent cover the same territory, 209.7 square miles of land in the 2026 place Gazetteer, so there are no separate towns or unincorporated areas to list.

Metropolitan area

Webster County is not part of any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area in the Office of Management and Budget’s July 2023 delineation; 1,306 other county equivalents are also outside one. These areas are built around an urban core of at least 10,000 people plus the counties tied to it by commuting, so counties outside them are generally rural.

ZIP codes

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

317803180331824318253183239877

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 Webster County

Webster County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Webster County. The largest neighbor is Sumter County (482.9 mi²) and the smallest is Terrell County (335.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Webster County forms a block of 2,281 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.2%.

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

Webster County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 4.9 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 275 areas the size of Webster County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 14.5 miles (23.3 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 Webster County?

Webster County has more land than 238 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 Webster County at #3,008 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 0.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.7 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 Webster 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.