Hocking County area

Population and density of Hocking County

The Census Bureau estimates that 27,512 people lived in Hocking County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,573 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #78 of 88 in Ohio. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 28,050, the population has declined by 538 (−1.9%), compared with +0.9% for Ohio as a whole.

With 421.4 square miles of land, that is 65 people per square mile (25 per km²), placing Hocking County #1,318 nationally for density and #76 in Ohio. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Ohio median is 120. Put another way, there are about 9.8 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 Hocking County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Hocking County. Together they are home to 8,039 people (29.2%); the other 19,473 (70.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Logan city, with 7,164 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Hocking County is an outlying county of the Columbus, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 10 county equivalents have 2,242,028 residents on 4,797.5 square miles of land; Hocking County accounts for 8.8% of the land and 1.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #55 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #32 by population. It belongs to the Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

43102431074311143127431304313543138431444314943152431554315843766456224565445764

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 Hocking County

Hocking County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Ross County (689.2 mi²) and the smallest is Perry County (407.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hocking County forms a block of 3,440.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.2%.

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

Hocking County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.5 times as much. Ohio’s county land could hold about 97 areas the size of Hocking County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20.5 miles (33 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 Hocking County?

Hocking County has more land than 818 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 Hocking County at #2,473 nationally by total area, 69 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 Hocking 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.