Muskogee County area

Population and density of Muskogee County

The Census Bureau estimates that 66,708 people lived in Muskogee County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #831 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #11 of 77 in Oklahoma. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 66,336, the population has grown by 372 (+0.6%), compared with +4.1% for Oklahoma as a whole.

With 810.7 square miles of land, that is 82 people per square mile (32 per km²), placing Muskogee County #1,131 nationally for density and #12 in Oklahoma. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Oklahoma median is 28. Put another way, there are about 7.8 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 Muskogee County

13 incorporated places lie at least partly in Muskogee County. Together they are home to 46,088 people (69.1%); the other 20,620 (30.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Muskogee city, with 36,760 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Haskell town grew fastest since then (+7.3%).

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

Metropolitan area

Muskogee County is a central county of the Muskogee, OK Micropolitan Statistical Area. Muskogee County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 810.7 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #260 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #127 by population. It belongs to the Tulsa-Bartlesville-Muskogee, OK Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

744017440374422744237442674428744347443574436744507445574463744687446974470

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 Muskogee County

Muskogee County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Cherokee County (749.1 mi²) and the smallest is Wagoner County (561.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Muskogee County forms a block of 4,687.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 17.3%.

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

Muskogee County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.3 times as much. Oklahoma’s county land could hold about 85 areas the size of Muskogee County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 28.5 miles (45.8 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 Muskogee County?

Muskogee County has more land than 2,174 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 Muskogee County at #1,101 nationally by total area, 53 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 3.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.3 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 Muskogee 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.