Crockett County area

Population and density of Crockett County

The Census Bureau estimates that 14,006 people lived in Crockett County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,235 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #83 of 95 in Tennessee. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 13,910, the population has grown by 96 (+0.7%), compared with +5.8% for Tennessee as a whole.

With 265.5 square miles of land, that is 53 people per square mile (20 per km²), placing Crockett County #1,499 nationally for density and #67 in Tennessee. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Tennessee median is 76. 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 Crockett County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Crockett County. Together they are home to 6,510 people (46.5%); the other 7,496 (53.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Bells city, with 2,473 residents in the county. The county seat, Alamo town, has 2,354 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Alamo town grew fastest since then (+0.6%).

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

Metropolitan area

Crockett County is an outlying county of the Jackson, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 184,569 residents on 1,711.2 square miles of land; Crockett County accounts for 15.5% of the land and 7.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #187 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #249 by population.

ZIP codes

8 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Crockett County; 5 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

3800138006380213803438040380503833738343

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 Crockett County

Crockett County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Crockett County. The largest neighbor is Gibson County (602.7 mi²) and the smallest is Lauderdale County (471.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Crockett County forms a block of 2,942.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 9%.

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

Crockett County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.9 times as much. Tennessee’s county land could hold about 155 areas the size of Crockett County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 16.3 miles (26.2 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 Crockett County?

Crockett County has more land than 347 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 Crockett County at #2,915 nationally by total area, 40 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 0.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.1 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 Crockett 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.