Augusta County area

Population and density of Augusta County

The Census Bureau estimates that 78,940 people lived in Augusta County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #744 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #28 of 133 in Virginia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 77,490, the population has grown by 1,450 (+1.9%), compared with +2.9% for Virginia as a whole.

With 967.1 square miles of land, that is 82 people per square mile (32 per km²), placing Augusta County #1,141 nationally for density and #81 in Virginia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Virginia median is 109. Put another way, there are about 7.8 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 Augusta County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Augusta County. Together they are home to 923 people (1.2%); the other 78,017 (98.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Craigsville town, with 923 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Augusta County is a central county of the Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 129,692 residents on 1,002 square miles of land; Augusta County accounts for 96.5% of the land and 60.9% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #282 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #320 by population. It belongs to the Harrisonburg-Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

22812228412284322920229392295222958229802440124411244212443024431244322443724439244402444124459244672446924472244762447724479244822448524486

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 Augusta County

Augusta County shares a land border with 9 county equivalents, including 1 in West Virginia. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Rockingham County (849.8 mi²) and the smallest is Waynesboro city (15 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Augusta County forms a block of 5,279.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 18.3%.

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

Augusta County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.1 times as much. Virginia’s county land could hold about 41 areas the size of Augusta County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 31.1 miles (50 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 Augusta County?

Augusta County has more land than 2,495 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 Augusta County at #817 nationally by total area, 90 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 Augusta 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.