Tipton County area

Population and density of Tipton County

The Census Bureau estimates that 62,287 people lived in Tipton County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #885 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #25 of 95 in Tennessee. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 60,976, the population has grown by 1,311 (+2.2%), compared with +5.8% for Tennessee as a whole.

With 455.6 square miles of land, that is 137 people per square mile (53 per km²), placing Tipton County #819 nationally for density and #27 in Tennessee. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Tennessee median is 76. Put another way, there are about 4.7 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 Tipton County

8 incorporated places lie at least partly in Tipton County. Together they are home to 31,586 people (50.7%); the other 30,701 (49.3%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Atoka town, with 10,645 residents in the county. The county seat, Covington city, has 8,585 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Munford city grew fastest since then (+10.9%).

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

Metropolitan area

Tipton County is an outlying county of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 9 county equivalents have 1,341,412 residents on 4,972.4 square miles of land; Tipton County accounts for 9.2% of the land and 4.6% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #52 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #46 by population. It belongs to the Memphis-Clarksdale-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

38004380113801538019380233804938053380583806972338

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 Tipton County

Tipton County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 2 in Arkansas. Each of them has more land than Tipton County. The largest neighbor is Mississippi County (902.1 mi²) and the smallest is Lauderdale County (471.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Tipton County forms a block of 4,431.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 10.3%.

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

Tipton County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.3 times as much. Tennessee’s county land could hold about 90 areas the size of Tipton County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 21.3 miles (34.4 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 Tipton County?

Tipton County has more land than 974 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 Tipton County at #2,288 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 2.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.5 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 Tipton 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.