Tuscarawas County area

Population and density of Tuscarawas County

The Census Bureau estimates that 92,373 people lived in Tuscarawas County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #668 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #30 of 88 in Ohio. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 93,283, the population has declined by 910 (−1%), compared with +0.9% for Ohio as a whole.

With 567.6 square miles of land, that is 163 people per square mile (63 per km²), placing Tuscarawas County #736 nationally for density and #31 in Ohio. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Ohio median is 120. Put another way, there are about 3.9 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 Tuscarawas County

19 incorporated places lie at least partly in Tuscarawas County. Together they are home to 53,673 people (58.1%); the other 38,700 (41.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is New Philadelphia city, with 17,424 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Strasburg village grew fastest since then (+0.1%).

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

Metropolitan area

Tuscarawas County is a central county of the New Philadelphia-Dover, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area. Tuscarawas County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 567.6 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #381 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #46 by population. It belongs to the Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

27 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Tuscarawas County; 17 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

437494380443824438324383743840439734460844612446214462244624446264462944643446534465644663446714467544678446804468144682446834469744699

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 Tuscarawas County

Tuscarawas County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 5 of them. The largest neighbor is Stark County (574.9 mi²) and the smallest is Carroll County (394.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Tuscarawas County forms a block of 3,448.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.5%.

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

Tuscarawas County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.8 times as much. Ohio’s county land could hold about 72 areas the size of Tuscarawas County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 23.8 miles (38.3 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 Tuscarawas County?

Tuscarawas County has more land than 1,422 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 Tuscarawas County at #1,913 nationally by total area, 113 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% — 0.5 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 Tuscarawas 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.