Washita County area

Population and density of Washita County

The Census Bureau estimates that 10,884 people lived in Washita County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,424 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #54 of 77 in Oklahoma. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 10,921, the population has declined by 37 (−0.3%), compared with +4.1% for Oklahoma as a whole.

With 1,003.1 square miles of land, that is 11 people per square mile (4.2 per km²), placing Washita County #2,620 nationally for density and #57 in Oklahoma. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Oklahoma median is 28. Put another way, there are about 59 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 Washita County

11 incorporated places lie at least partly in Washita County. Together they are home to 7,433 people (68.3%); the other 3,451 (31.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is New Cordell city, with 2,746 residents in the county. By land, Clinton city is the largest at 9.947 mi² across all its counties.

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

Metropolitan area

Washita County is an outlying county of the Weatherford, OK Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 39,059 residents on 1,991.9 square miles of land; Washita County accounts for 50.4% of the land and 27.9% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #80 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #332 by population. It belongs to the Weatherford-Elk City, OK Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

18 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Washita County; 10 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

730157302173024730417306273096736017362273624736267362773632736417364473647736557366173664

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 Washita County

Washita County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Caddo County (1,277.8 mi²) and the smallest is Beckham County (901.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Washita County forms a block of 5,186.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 19.3%.

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

Washita 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 times as much. Oklahoma’s county land could hold about 68 areas the size of Washita County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 31.7 miles (51 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 Washita County?

Washita County has more land than 2,545 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 Washita County at #764 nationally by total area, 87 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 0.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.6 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 Washita 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.