Camden County area

Population and density of Camden County

The Census Bureau estimates that 11,315 people lived in Camden County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,401 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #94 of 100 in North Carolina. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 10,357, the population has grown by 958 (+9.2%), compared with +7.2% for North Carolina as a whole.

With 240.3 square miles of land, that is 47 people per square mile (18 per km²), placing Camden County #1,611 nationally for density and #87 in North Carolina. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the North Carolina median is 116. Put another way, there are about 14 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 Camden County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Camden County. Together they are home to 40 people (0.4%); the other 11,275 (99.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Elizabeth City city, with 40 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county).

Metropolitan area

Camden County is an outlying county of the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 18 county equivalents have 1,797,213 residents on 3,201.9 square miles of land; Camden County accounts for 7.5% of the land and 0.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #96 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #38 by population. It belongs to the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake, VA-NC Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

2790927921279732797427976

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 Camden County

Camden County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 2 in Virginia. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Suffolk city (399.2 mi²) and the smallest is Pasquotank County (226.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Camden County forms a block of 1,807.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.3%.

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

Camden County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 4.3 times as much. North Carolina’s county land could hold about 202 areas the size of Camden County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 15.5 miles (24.9 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 Camden County?

Camden County has more land than 293 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 Camden County at #2,826 nationally by total area, 103 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 22.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 21.4 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 Camden 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.