Okmulgee County area

Population and density of Okmulgee County

The Census Bureau estimates that 37,241 people lived in Okmulgee County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,287 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #29 of 77 in Oklahoma. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 36,702, the population has grown by 539 (+1.5%), compared with +4.1% for Oklahoma as a whole.

With 697.4 square miles of land, that is 53 people per square mile (21 per km²), placing Okmulgee County #1,490 nationally for density and #25 in Oklahoma. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Oklahoma median is 28. Put another way, there are about 12 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 Okmulgee County

11 incorporated places lie at least partly in Okmulgee County. Together they are home to 21,569 people (57.9%); the other 15,672 (42.1%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Okmulgee city, with 11,386 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county). Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Morris city grew fastest since then (+2.9%).

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

Metropolitan area

Okmulgee County is an outlying county of the Tulsa, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 7 county equivalents have 1,069,273 residents on 6,270.1 square miles of land; Okmulgee County accounts for 11.1% of the land and 3.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #32 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #54 by population. It belongs to the Tulsa-Bartlesville-Muskogee, OK Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Okmulgee County; 8 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

7404774421744227443174436744377444574447744567446074880

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 Okmulgee County

Okmulgee County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Creek County (949.9 mi²) and the smallest is Wagoner County (561.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Okmulgee County forms a block of 4,826.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.4%.

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

Okmulgee County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.5 times as much. Oklahoma’s county land could hold about 98 areas the size of Okmulgee County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 26.4 miles (42.5 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 Okmulgee County?

Okmulgee County has more land than 1,892 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 Okmulgee County at #1,430 nationally by total area, 100 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 Okmulgee 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.