Renville County area

Population and density of Renville County

The Census Bureau estimates that 2,331 people lived in Renville County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #3,091 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #39 of 53 in North Dakota. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 2,274, the population has grown by 57 (+2.5%), compared with +2.6% for North Dakota as a whole.

With 877.2 square miles of land, that is 2.7 people per square mile (1 per km²), placing Renville County #3,014 nationally for density and #34 in North Dakota. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the North Dakota median is 3.7. Put another way, there are about 241 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 Renville County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Renville County. Together they are home to 1,376 people (59%); the other 955 (41%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Mohall city, with 706 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Renville County is an outlying county of the Minot, ND Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 75,694 residents on 4,764.2 square miles of land; Renville County accounts for 18.4% of the land and 3.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #56 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #387 by population.

ZIP codes

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

587185872558734587405874658750587615878258787

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 Renville County

Renville County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Renville County. The largest neighbor is Ward County (2,013 mi²) and the smallest is Burke County (1,103.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Renville County forms a block of 7,536.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.6%.

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

Renville County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.2 times as much. North Dakota’s county land could hold about 79 areas the size of Renville County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29.6 miles (47.7 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 Renville County?

Renville County has more land than 2,305 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 Renville County at #1,001 nationally by total area, 84 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 1.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.6 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 Renville 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.