Tipton County area

Population and density of Tipton County

The Census Bureau estimates that 15,319 people lived in Tipton County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,138 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #81 of 92 in Indiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 15,354, the population has declined by 35 (−0.2%), compared with +2.8% for Indiana as a whole.

With 260.5 square miles of land, that is 59 people per square mile (23 per km²), placing Tipton County #1,403 nationally for density and #67 in Indiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Indiana median is 88. Put another way, there are about 11 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 Tipton County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Tipton County. Together they are home to 6,751 people (44.1%); the other 8,568 (55.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Tipton city, with 5,263 residents in the county. By land, Elwood city is the largest at 4.014 mi² across all its counties.

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

Metropolitan area

Tipton County is an outlying county of the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 11 county equivalents have 2,205,695 residents on 4,086 square miles of land; Tipton County accounts for 6.4% of the land and 0.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #71 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #33 by population. It belongs to the Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

4603146036460454604746049460504606846072460764690246979

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 Tipton County

Tipton County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Tipton County. The largest neighbor is Madison County (451.9 mi²) and the smallest is Howard County (293.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Tipton County forms a block of 2,219.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.7%.

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

Tipton 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 times as much. Indiana’s county land could hold about 138 areas the size of Tipton County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 16.1 miles (26 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 Tipton County?

Tipton County has more land than 336 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 Tipton County at #2,925 nationally by total area, 39 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%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.2 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 Tipton 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.