Bollinger County area

Population and density of Bollinger County

The Census Bureau estimates that 10,646 people lived in Bollinger County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,440 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #82 of 115 in Missouri. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 10,568, the population has grown by 78 (+0.7%), compared with +1.9% for Missouri as a whole.

With 617.9 square miles of land, that is 17 people per square mile (6.7 per km²), placing Bollinger County #2,401 nationally for density and #86 in Missouri. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Missouri median is 31. Put another way, there are about 37 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 Bollinger County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Bollinger County. Together they are home to 1,638 people (15.4%); the other 9,008 (84.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Marble Hill city, with 1,380 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Bollinger County is an outlying county of the Cape Girardeau, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 99,215 residents on 1,431.8 square miles of land; Bollinger County accounts for 43.2% of the land and 10.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #230 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #372 by population. It belongs to the Cape Girardeau-Sikeston, MO-IL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

6365563662637306375063751637606376463766637756378163782637856378763960

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 Bollinger County

Bollinger County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Stoddard County (823.1 mi²) and the smallest is Perry County (474.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Bollinger County forms a block of 3,747.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.5%.

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

Bollinger County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.7 times as much. Missouri’s county land could hold about 111 areas the size of Bollinger County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 24.9 miles (40 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 Bollinger County?

Bollinger County has more land than 1,660 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 Bollinger County at #1,670 nationally by total area, 108 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 0.5%, 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 Bollinger 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.