Fluvanna County area

Population and density of Fluvanna County

The Census Bureau estimates that 28,975 people lived in Fluvanna County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,519 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #63 of 133 in Virginia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 27,248, the population has grown by 1,727 (+6.3%), compared with +2.9% for Virginia as a whole.

With 286.2 square miles of land, that is 101 people per square mile (39 per km²), placing Fluvanna County #984 nationally for density and #71 in Virginia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Virginia median is 109. Put another way, there are about 6.3 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 Fluvanna County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Fluvanna County. Together they are home to 40 people (0.1%); the other 28,935 (99.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Scottsville town, with 40 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county).

Metropolitan area

Fluvanna County is an outlying county of the Charlottesville, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 5 county equivalents have 228,597 residents on 1,643.6 square miles of land; Fluvanna County accounts for 17.4% of the land and 12.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #195 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #213 by population.

ZIP codes

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

22902229472296322974230222303823055230842309324590

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 Fluvanna County

Fluvanna County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Albemarle County (720.5 mi²) and the smallest is Goochland County (283 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Fluvanna County forms a block of 2,661.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 10.8%.

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

Fluvanna County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.6 times as much. Virginia’s county land could hold about 138 areas the size of Fluvanna County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 16.9 miles (27.2 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 Fluvanna County?

Fluvanna County has more land than 393 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 Fluvanna County at #2,861 nationally by total area, 32 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 1.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 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 Fluvanna 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.