Warren County area

Population and density of Warren County

The Census Bureau estimates that 257,181 people lived in Warren County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #288 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #10 of 88 in Ohio. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 242,345, the population has grown by 14,836 (+6.1%), compared with +0.9% for Ohio as a whole.

With 401.4 square miles of land, that is 641 people per square mile (247 per km²), placing Warren County #273 nationally for density and #11 in Ohio. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Ohio median is 120. Put another way, there are about 0.999 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 Warren County

17 incorporated places lie at least partly in Warren County. Together they are home to 113,794 people (44.2%); the other 143,387 (55.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Mason city, with 35,834 residents in the county. The county seat, Lebanon city, has 22,110 residents. By land, Middletown city is the largest at 26.3 mi² across all its counties. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Maineville village grew fastest since then (+8.6%).

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

Metropolitan area

Warren County is a central county of the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 15 county equivalents have 2,312,858 residents on 4,385.2 square miles of land; Warren County accounts for 9.2% of the land and 11.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #60 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #30 by population. It belongs to the Cincinnati-Wilmington, OH-KY-IN Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

24 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Warren County; 12 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

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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 Warren County

Warren County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Warren County. The largest neighbor is Butler County (466.5 mi²) and the smallest is Hamilton County (405.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Warren County forms a block of 3,009.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.3%.

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

Warren County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.6 times as much. Ohio’s county land could hold about 102 areas the size of Warren County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20 miles (32.2 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 Warren County?

Warren County has more land than 703 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 Warren County at #2,561 nationally by total area, 42 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 1.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 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 Warren 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.