Harrison County area

Population and density of Harrison County

The Census Bureau estimates that 40,437 people lived in Harrison County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,203 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #38 of 92 in Indiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 39,656, the population has grown by 781 (+2%), compared with +2.8% for Indiana as a whole.

With 484.1 square miles of land, that is 84 people per square mile (32 per km²), placing Harrison County #1,121 nationally for density and #47 in Indiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Indiana median is 88. Put another way, there are about 7.7 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 Harrison County

10 incorporated places lie at least partly in Harrison County. Together they are home to 6,002 people (14.8%); the other 34,435 (85.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Corydon town, with 3,196 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Harrison County is an outlying county of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 12 county equivalents have 1,402,509 residents on 3,960.8 square miles of land; Harrison County accounts for 12.2% of the land and 2.9% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #74 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #44 by population. It belongs to the Louisville/Jefferson County--Elizabethtown, KY-IN Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

16 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Harrison County; 12 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

47110471124711447115471174712047122471244713547136471374714247160471614716447166

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 Harrison County

Harrison County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 3 in Kentucky. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Hardin County (623.9 mi²) and the smallest is Floyd County (148.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Harrison County forms a block of 2,762.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 17.5%.

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

Harrison 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. Indiana’s county land could hold about 74 areas the size of Harrison 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 Harrison County?

Harrison County has more land than 1,083 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 Harrison County at #2,226 nationally by total area, 87 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 Harrison 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.