Warrick County area

Population and density of Warrick County

The Census Bureau estimates that 66,803 people lived in Warrick County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #830 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #25 of 92 in Indiana. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 63,894, the population has grown by 2,909 (+4.6%), compared with +2.8% for Indiana as a whole.

With 384.6 square miles of land, that is 174 people per square mile (67 per km²), placing Warrick County #695 nationally for density and #24 in Indiana. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Indiana median is 88. Put another way, there are about 3.7 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 Warrick County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Warrick County. Together they are home to 15,874 people (23.8%); the other 50,929 (76.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Boonville city, with 6,689 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Chandler town grew fastest since then (+7.2%).

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

Metropolitan area

Warrick 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; Warrick County accounts for 37.4% of the land and 24.4% 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

12 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Warrick County; 7 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

475234753747541476014761047613476194763047637476394766047725

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 Warrick County

Warrick County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents, including 2 in Kentucky. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Gibson County (487.4 mi²) and the smallest is Vanderburgh County (233.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Warrick County forms a block of 3,158.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.2%.

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

Warrick County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.7 times as much. Indiana’s county land could hold about 93 areas the size of Warrick County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19.6 miles (31.6 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 Warrick County?

Warrick County has more land than 634 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 Warrick County at #2,633 nationally by total area, 45 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 1.6%, 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 Warrick 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.