Storey County area

Population and density of Storey County

The Census Bureau estimates that 4,260 people lived in Storey County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,944 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #15 of 17 in Nevada. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 4,099, the population has grown by 161 (+3.9%), compared with +5.7% for Nevada as a whole.

With 263.8 square miles of land, that is 16 people per square mile (6.2 per km²), placing Storey County #2,435 nationally for density and #6 in Nevada. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Nevada median is 3.2. Put another way, there are about 40 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 Storey County

Storey County has no incorporated cities, towns or villages. All 4,260 of its residents live in unincorporated communities, which the Census Bureau describes as census-designated places rather than municipalities.

Metropolitan area

Storey County is an outlying county of the Reno, NV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 578,734 residents on 8,582.7 square miles of land; Storey County accounts for 3.1% of the land and 0.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #12 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #102 by population. It belongs to the Reno-Carson City-Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Storey County; 3 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

894038943489437894408944289521

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 Storey County

Storey County shares a land border with 2 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Storey County. The largest neighbor is Washoe County (6,315.9 mi²) and the smallest is Lyon County (2,003.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Storey County forms a block of 8,582.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 3.1%.

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

Storey County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.9 times as much. Nevada’s county land could hold about 416 areas the size of Storey County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 16.2 miles (26.1 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 Storey County?

Storey County has more land than 344 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 Storey County at #2,917 nationally by total area, 39 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 0.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.9 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 Storey 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.