Bennington County area

Population and density of Bennington County

The Census Bureau estimates that 36,630 people lived in Bennington County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,311 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #8 of 14 in Vermont. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 37,352, the population has declined by 722 (−1.9%), compared with +0.2% for Vermont as a whole.

With 674.2 square miles of land, that is 54 people per square mile (21 per km²), placing Bennington County #1,472 nationally for density and #9 in Vermont. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Vermont median is 57. 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 Bennington County

Bennington County is divided into 17 cities and towns. In Vermont, county subdivisions are local governments, and together they cover all of the county’s land and residents.

The most populous is Bennington town, with 14,953 residents (40.8% of the county). The largest by land is Dorset town, at 47.4 mi², or 7% of the county’s land. Among those with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Sunderland town grew fastest since then (+0.1%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each subdivision inside Bennington County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Bennington County is a central county of the Bennington, VT Micropolitan Statistical Area. Bennington County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 674.2 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #321 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #374 by population.

ZIP codes

22 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Bennington County; 17 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

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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 Bennington County

Bennington County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents, including 4 in New York and Massachusetts. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Windsor County (969.1 mi²) and the smallest is Rensselaer County (652.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Bennington County forms a block of 6,469.6 mi² of land, of which it holds 10.4%.

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

Bennington County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.5 times as much. Vermont’s county land could hold about 14 areas the size of Bennington County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 26 miles (41.8 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 Bennington County?

Bennington County has more land than 1,822 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 Bennington County at #1,504 nationally by total area, 104 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 0.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.8 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 Bennington 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.