Christian County area

Population and density of Christian County

The Census Bureau estimates that 70,115 people lived in Christian County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #803 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #12 of 120 in Kentucky. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 72,799, the population has declined by 2,684 (−3.7%), compared with +2.2% for Kentucky as a whole.

With 717.8 square miles of land, that is 98 people per square mile (38 per km²), placing Christian County #1,010 nationally for density and #34 in Kentucky. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Kentucky median is 59. Put another way, there are about 6.6 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 Christian County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Christian County. Together they are home to 39,910 people (56.9%); the other 30,205 (43.1%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Hopkinsville city, with 30,411 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Christian County is an outlying county of the Clarksville, TN-KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 349,001 residents on 2,158.2 square miles of land; Christian County accounts for 33.3% of the land and 20.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #146 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #160 by population.

ZIP codes

15 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Christian County; 8 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

422154221742220422234223242236422404225442262422664228642408424424245342464

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 Christian County

Christian County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents, including 2 in Tennessee. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Hopkins County (542.3 mi²) and the smallest is Caldwell County (344.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Christian County forms a block of 3,887.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 18.5%.

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

Christian County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.4 times as much. Kentucky’s county land could hold about 55 areas the size of Christian County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 26.8 miles (43.1 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 Christian County?

Christian County has more land than 1,969 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 Christian County at #1,341 nationally by total area, 88 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 0.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 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 Christian 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.