Vigo County area

Population and density of Vigo County

The Census Bureau estimates that 106,512 people lived in Vigo County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #597 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #17 of 92 in Indiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 106,168, the population has grown by 344 (+0.3%), compared with +2.8% for Indiana as a whole.

With 403.6 square miles of land, that is 264 people per square mile (102 per km²), placing Vigo County #553 nationally for density and #19 in Indiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Indiana median is 88. Put another way, there are about 2.4 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 Vigo County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Vigo County. Together they are home to 62,162 people (58.4%); the other 44,350 (41.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Terre Haute city, with 58,764 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Terre Haute city grew fastest since then (+0.6%).

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

Metropolitan area

Vigo County is a central county of the Terre Haute, IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 169,241 residents on 1,465.3 square miles of land; Vigo County accounts for 27.5% of the land and 62.9% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #224 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #267 by population.

ZIP codes

20 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Vigo County; 15 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

4780247803478044780547807478094783447842478504785147858478634786647869478704787147874478764788047885

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 Vigo County

Vigo County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 2 in Illinois. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Edgar County (623.3 mi²) and the smallest is Vermillion County (256.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Vigo County forms a block of 3,034.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.3%.

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

Vigo County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.6 times as much. Indiana’s county land could hold about 89 areas the size of Vigo County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20.1 miles (32.3 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 Vigo County?

Vigo County has more land than 715 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 Vigo County at #2,542 nationally by total area, 35 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 1.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.5 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 Vigo 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.