Floyd County area

Population and density of Floyd County

The Census Bureau estimates that 15,789 people lived in Floyd County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,118 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #95 of 133 in Virginia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 15,473, the population has grown by 316 (+2%), compared with +2.9% for Virginia as a whole.

With 380.9 square miles of land, that is 41 people per square mile (16 per km²), placing Floyd County #1,722 nationally for density and #106 in Virginia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Virginia median is 109. Put another way, there are about 15 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 Floyd County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Floyd County. Together they are home to 458 people (2.9%); the other 15,331 (97.1%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Floyd town, with 458 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Floyd County is an outlying county of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 5 county equivalents have 181,616 residents on 1,454.5 square miles of land; Floyd County accounts for 26.2% of the land and 8.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #226 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #254 by population.

ZIP codes

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

2407224079240912410524120241382414124149241622435224380

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 Floyd County

Floyd County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Franklin County (690.6 mi²) and the smallest is Roanoke County (250.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Floyd County forms a block of 2,986.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.8%.

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

Floyd County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.7 times as much. Virginia’s county land could hold about 104 areas the size of Floyd County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19.5 miles (31.4 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 Floyd County?

Floyd County has more land than 623 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 Floyd County at #2,656 nationally by total area, 57 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 0.2%, 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 Floyd 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.