Schoharie County area

Population and density of Schoharie County

The Census Bureau estimates that 30,176 people lived in Schoharie County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,480 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #58 of 62 in New York. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 29,715, the population has grown by 461 (+1.6%), compared with −1% for New York as a whole.

With 621.8 square miles of land, that is 49 people per square mile (19 per km²), placing Schoharie County #1,582 nationally for density and #54 in New York. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the New York median is 112. Put another way, there are about 13 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 Schoharie County

Schoharie County is divided into 16 cities and towns. In New York, county subdivisions are local governments, and together they cover all of the county’s land and residents.

The most populous is Cobleskill town, with 6,484 residents (21.5% of the county). The largest by land is Fulton town, at 65 mi², or 10.4% of the county’s land. The county seat, Schoharie town, has 3,086 residents. Among those with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Cobleskill town grew fastest since then (+6.3%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each subdivision inside Schoharie County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Schoharie County is an outlying county of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 5 county equivalents have 915,835 residents on 2,811.8 square miles of land; Schoharie County accounts for 22.1% of the land and 3.3% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #106 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #66 by population. It belongs to the Albany-Schenectady, NY Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

24 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Schoharie County; 18 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

120231203112035120361204312053120641206612071120761209212093121221213112149121571216012166121671217512187121941246913459

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 Schoharie County

Schoharie County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Delaware County (1,442.6 mi²) and the smallest is Schenectady County (204.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Schoharie County forms a block of 4,844 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.8%.

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

Schoharie 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. New York’s county land could hold about 76 areas the size of Schoharie County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 24.9 miles (40.1 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 Schoharie County?

Schoharie County has more land than 1,669 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 Schoharie County at #1,649 nationally by total area, 96 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 0.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.4 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 Schoharie 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.