Clallam County area

Population and density of Clallam County

The Census Bureau estimates that 78,202 people lived in Clallam County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #746 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #18 of 39 in Washington. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 77,158, the population has grown by 1,044 (+1.4%), compared with +3.8% for Washington as a whole.

With 1,738.8 square miles of land, that is 45 people per square mile (17 per km²), placing Clallam County #1,650 nationally for density and #18 in Washington. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Washington median is 39. Put another way, there are about 14 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 Clallam County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Clallam County. Together they are home to 31,849 people (40.7%); the other 46,353 (59.3%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Port Angeles city, with 20,146 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Forks city grew fastest since then (+2.8%).

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

Metropolitan area

Clallam County is a central county of the Port Angeles, WA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Clallam County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 1,738.8 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #92 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #78 by population.

ZIP codes

9 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Clallam County; 8 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

983059832698331983509835798362983639838198382

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 Clallam County

Clallam County shares a land border with 1 county equivalent. Jefferson County has 1 times its land area.

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

Clallam County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.7 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.1 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Washington’s county land could hold about 38 areas the size of Clallam County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 41.7 miles (67.1 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 Clallam County?

Clallam County has more land than 2,880 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 Clallam County at #211 nationally by total area, 131 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 34.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 33.7 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 Clallam 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.