Edmonson County area

Population and density of Edmonson County

The Census Bureau estimates that 12,749 people lived in Edmonson County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,307 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #87 of 120 in Kentucky. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 12,125, the population has grown by 624 (+5.1%), compared with +2.2% for Kentucky as a whole.

With 302.8 square miles of land, that is 42 people per square mile (16 per km²), placing Edmonson County #1,705 nationally for density and #80 in Kentucky. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Kentucky median is 59. Put another way, there are about 15 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 Edmonson County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Edmonson County. Together they are home to 898 people (7%); the other 11,851 (93%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Brownsville city, with 898 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Edmonson County is an outlying county of the Bowling Green, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 197,180 residents on 1,614.4 square miles of land; Edmonson County accounts for 18.8% of the land and 6.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #201 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #240 by population. It belongs to the Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

421014216042163421714220742210422594227542285427214272942754

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 Edmonson County

Edmonson County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Edmonson County. The largest neighbor is Warren County (541.7 mi²) and the smallest is Hart County (412.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Edmonson County forms a block of 2,670.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.3%.

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

Edmonson County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.4 times as much. Kentucky’s county land could hold about 130 areas the size of Edmonson County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 17.4 miles (28 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 Edmonson County?

Edmonson County has more land than 417 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 Edmonson County at #2,831 nationally by total area, 26 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 Edmonson 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.