King and Queen County area

Population and density of King and Queen County

The Census Bureau estimates that 6,743 people lived in King and Queen County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,752 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #122 of 133 in Virginia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 6,603, the population has grown by 140 (+2.1%), compared with +2.9% for Virginia as a whole.

With 315.1 square miles of land, that is 21 people per square mile (8.3 per km²), placing King and Queen County #2,276 nationally for density and #129 in Virginia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Virginia median is 109. Put another way, there are about 30 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 King and Queen County

King and Queen County has no incorporated cities, towns or villages. All 6,743 of its residents live in unincorporated communities, which the Census Bureau describes as census-designated places rather than municipalities.

Metropolitan area

King and Queen County is an outlying county of the Richmond, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 17 county equivalents have 1,389,338 residents on 4,367.8 square miles of land; King and Queen County accounts for 7.2% of the land and 0.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #62 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #45 by population.

ZIP codes

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

2243722514225602302323085230912310823110231262314823149231562316123177

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 King and Queen County

King and Queen County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than 6 of them. The largest neighbor is Caroline County (527.4 mi²) and the smallest is Middlesex County (130.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, King and Queen County forms a block of 2,074.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 15.2%.

How big is King and Queen County compared with U.S. states?

King and Queen County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.3 times as much. Virginia’s county land could hold about 125 areas the size of King and Queen County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 17.8 miles (28.6 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 King and Queen County?

King and Queen County has more land than 448 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 King and Queen County at #2,795 nationally by total area, 21 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 3.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.3 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 King and Queen 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.