Comanche County area

Population and density of Comanche County

The Census Bureau estimates that 122,158 people lived in Comanche County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #538 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #5 of 77 in Oklahoma. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 121,125, the population has grown by 1,033 (+0.9%), compared with +4.1% for Oklahoma as a whole.

With 1,069.3 square miles of land, that is 114 people per square mile (44 per km²), placing Comanche County #909 nationally for density and #9 in Oklahoma. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Oklahoma median is 28. Put another way, there are about 5.6 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 Comanche County

10 incorporated places lie at least partly in Comanche County. Together they are home to 101,831 people (83.4%); the other 20,327 (16.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Lawton city, with 90,503 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Cache city grew fastest since then (+10.1%).

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

Metropolitan area

Comanche County is a central county of the Lawton, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 127,590 residents on 1,702 square miles of land; Comanche County accounts for 62.8% of the land and 95.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #188 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #329 by population. It belongs to the Lawton-Duncan, OK Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

73006730177305573082735017350373505735077352773528735387354073541735437355273557735597356773572

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 Comanche County

Comanche County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Caddo County (1,277.8 mi²) and the smallest is Cotton County (632.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Comanche County forms a block of 6,836.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 15.6%.

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

Comanche County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.8 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Oklahoma’s county land could hold about 64 areas the size of Comanche County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 32.7 miles (52.6 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 Comanche County?

Comanche County has more land than 2,618 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 Comanche County at #682 nationally by total area, 78 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 1.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.2 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 Comanche 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.