Vanderburgh County area

Population and density of Vanderburgh County

The Census Bureau estimates that 181,995 people lived in Vanderburgh County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #386 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #9 of 92 in Indiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 180,132, the population has grown by 1,863 (+1%), compared with +2.8% for Indiana as a whole.

With 233.4 square miles of land, that is 780 people per square mile (301 per km²), placing Vanderburgh County #232 nationally for density and #4 in Indiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Indiana median is 88. Put another way, there are about 0.821 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 Vanderburgh County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Vanderburgh County. Together they are home to 117,617 people (64.6%); the other 64,378 (35.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Evansville city, with 116,176 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Darmstadt town grew fastest since then (+4.3%).

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

Metropolitan area

Vanderburgh County is a central county of the Evansville, IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 273,786 residents on 1,027.4 square miles of land; Vanderburgh County accounts for 22.7% of the land and 66.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #276 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #187 by population. It belongs to the Evansville-Henderson, IN-KY Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

4763347639477084771047711477124771347714477154772047725

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 Vanderburgh County

Vanderburgh County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents, including 1 in Kentucky. Each of them has more land than Vanderburgh County. The largest neighbor is Gibson County (487.4 mi²) and the smallest is Warrick County (384.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Vanderburgh County forms a block of 1,951.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 12%.

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

Vanderburgh County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 4.4 times as much. Indiana’s county land could hold about 153 areas the size of Vanderburgh County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 15.3 miles (24.6 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 Vanderburgh County?

Vanderburgh County has more land than 280 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 Vanderburgh County at #2,969 nationally by total area, 27 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 1.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 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 Vanderburgh 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.