Floyd County area

Population and density of Floyd County

The Census Bureau estimates that 34,401 people lived in Floyd County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,361 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #31 of 120 in Kentucky. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 35,946, the population has declined by 1,545 (−4.3%), compared with +2.2% for Kentucky as a whole.

With 393.3 square miles of land, that is 87 people per square mile (34 per km²), placing Floyd County #1,090 nationally for density and #39 in Kentucky. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Kentucky median is 59. Put another way, there are about 7.3 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 Floyd County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Floyd County. Together they are home to 5,673 people (16.5%); the other 28,728 (83.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Prestonsburg city, with 3,618 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Floyd County is an outlying county of the Pikeville, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 89,122 residents on 1,179.5 square miles of land; Floyd County accounts for 33.3% of the land and 38.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #145 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #49 by population.

ZIP codes

34 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Floyd County; 31 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

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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 Floyd County

Floyd County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Pike County (786.2 mi²) and the smallest is Martin County (229.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Floyd County forms a block of 2,331.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.9%.

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

Floyd 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. Kentucky’s county land could hold about 100 areas the size of Floyd County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19.8 miles (31.9 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 Floyd County?

Floyd County has more land than 662 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 Floyd County at #2,620 nationally by total area, 60 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 0.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.6 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 Floyd 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.