Stewart County area

Population and density of Stewart County

The Census Bureau estimates that 14,439 people lived in Stewart County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,193 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #80 of 95 in Tennessee. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 13,656, the population has grown by 783 (+5.7%), compared with +5.8% for Tennessee as a whole.

With 459.8 square miles of land, that is 31 people per square mile (12 per km²), placing Stewart County #1,962 nationally for density and #92 in Tennessee. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Tennessee median is 76. Put another way, there are about 20 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 Stewart County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Stewart County. Together they are home to 2,248 people (15.6%); the other 12,191 (84.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Dover city, with 1,918 residents in the county. By land, Cumberland City town is the largest at 5.005 mi².

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

Metropolitan area

Stewart County is an outlying county of the Clarksville, TN-KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 4 county equivalents have 349,001 residents on 2,158.2 square miles of land; Stewart County accounts for 21.3% of the land and 4.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #146 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #160 by population.

ZIP codes

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

3702337028370503705837061370793717537178

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 Stewart County

Stewart County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents, including 3 in Kentucky. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Christian County (717.8 mi²) and the smallest is Houston County (200.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Stewart County forms a block of 3,699.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.4%.

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

Stewart County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.2 times as much. Tennessee’s county land could hold about 90 areas the size of Stewart County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 21.4 miles (34.5 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 Stewart County?

Stewart County has more land than 994 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 Stewart County at #2,209 nationally by total area, 19 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 6.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 5.6 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 Stewart 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.