Steuben County area

Population and density of Steuben County

The Census Bureau estimates that 34,799 people lived in Steuben County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,349 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #46 of 92 in Indiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 34,440, the population has grown by 359 (+1%), compared with +2.8% for Indiana as a whole.

With 308.8 square miles of land, that is 113 people per square mile (44 per km²), placing Steuben County #915 nationally for density and #33 in Indiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Indiana median is 88. Put another way, there are about 5.7 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 Steuben County

7 incorporated places lie at least partly in Steuben County. Together they are home to 14,430 people (41.5%); the other 20,369 (58.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Angola city, with 9,366 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Hamilton town grew fastest since then (+1.7%).

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

Metropolitan area

Steuben County is a central county of the Angola, IN Micropolitan Statistical Area. Steuben County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 308.8 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #522 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #395 by population. It belongs to the Fort Wayne-Huntington-Auburn, IN Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

467034670546737467424674746761467764677946793

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 Steuben County

Steuben County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 3 in Michigan and Ohio. Each of them has more land than Steuben County. The largest neighbor is Hillsdale County (598.2 mi²) and the smallest is DeKalb County (362.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Steuben County forms a block of 2,576.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 12%.

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

Steuben County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.3 times as much. Indiana’s county land could hold about 116 areas the size of Steuben County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 17.6 miles (28.3 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 Steuben County?

Steuben County has more land than 432 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 Steuben County at #2,800 nationally by total area, 10 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 4.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 3.1 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 Steuben 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.