Beckham County area

Population and density of Beckham County

The Census Bureau estimates that 22,159 people lived in Beckham County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,769 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #38 of 77 in Oklahoma. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 22,407, the population has declined by 248 (−1.1%), compared with +4.1% for Oklahoma as a whole.

With 901.7 square miles of land, that is 25 people per square mile (9.5 per km²), placing Beckham County #2,156 nationally for density and #40 in Oklahoma. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Oklahoma median is 28. Put another way, there are about 26 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 Beckham County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Beckham County. Together they are home to 17,406 people (78.6%); the other 4,753 (21.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Elk City city, with 11,335 residents in the county. The county seat, Sayre city, has 4,783 residents.

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

Metropolitan area

Beckham County is a central county of the Elk City, OK Micropolitan Statistical Area. Beckham County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 901.7 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #213 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #496 by population. It belongs to the Weatherford-Elk City, OK Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

73627736447364573662736667366873673

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 Beckham County

Beckham County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents, including 2 in Texas. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Roger Mills County (1,141.1 mi²) and the smallest is Harmon County (537.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Beckham County forms a block of 8,059.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.2%.

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

Beckham County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.1 times as much. Oklahoma’s county land could hold about 76 areas the size of Beckham County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 30 miles (48.3 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 Beckham County?

Beckham County has more land than 2,376 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 Beckham County at #956 nationally by total area, 110 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 0.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.9 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 Beckham 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.