Bland County area

Population and density of Bland County

The Census Bureau estimates that 6,151 people lived in Bland County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,797 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #127 of 133 in Virginia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 6,272, the population has declined by 121 (−1.9%), compared with +2.9% for Virginia as a whole.

With 357.6 square miles of land, that is 17 people per square mile (6.6 per km²), placing Bland County #2,402 nationally for density and #130 in Virginia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Virginia median is 109. Put another way, there are about 37 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 Bland County

Bland County has no incorporated cities, towns or villages. All 6,151 of its residents live in unincorporated communities, which the Census Bureau describes as census-designated places rather than municipalities.

Metropolitan area

Bland County is not part of any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area in the Office of Management and Budget’s July 2023 delineation; 1,306 other county equivalents are also outside one. These areas are built around an urban core of at least 10,000 people plus the counties tied to it by commuting, so counties outside them are generally rural.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Bland County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

240842412424314243152431824366

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 Bland County

Bland County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 1 in West Virginia. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Tazewell County (518.8 mi²) and the smallest is Pulaski County (319.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Bland County forms a block of 2,885.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.4%.

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

Bland County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.9 times as much. Virginia’s county land could hold about 110 areas the size of Bland County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 18.9 miles (30.4 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 Bland County?

Bland County has more land than 559 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 Bland County at #2,719 nationally by total area, 56 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 0.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.9 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 Bland 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.