Curry County area

Population and density of Curry County

The Census Bureau estimates that 22,621 people lived in Curry County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,752 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #27 of 36 in Oregon. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 23,446, the population has declined by 825 (−3.5%), compared with +0.9% for Oregon as a whole.

With 1,628.4 square miles of land, that is 14 people per square mile (5.4 per km²), placing Curry County #2,506 nationally for density and #22 in Oregon. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Oregon median is 25. Put another way, there are about 46 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 Curry County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Curry County. Together they are home to 9,789 people (43.3%); the other 12,832 (56.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Brookings city, with 6,431 residents in the county. The county seat, Gold Beach city, has 2,257 residents.

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

Metropolitan area

Curry County is a central county of the Brookings, OR Micropolitan Statistical Area. Curry County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 1,628.4 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #99 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #494 by population. It belongs to the Brookings-Crescent City, OR-CA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Curry County; 6 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

97406974159744497450974659746697476

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 Curry County

Curry County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents, including 1 in California. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Douglas County (5,035.8 mi²) and the smallest is Del Norte County (1,006.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Curry County forms a block of 10,905.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.9%.

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

Curry County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.6 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.2 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Oregon’s county land could hold about 59 areas the size of Curry County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 40.4 miles (64.9 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 Curry County?

Curry County has more land than 2,849 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 Curry County at #322 nationally by total area, 51 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 18.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 17 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 Curry 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.