Cabell County area

Population and density of Cabell County

The Census Bureau estimates that 91,183 people lived in Cabell County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #673 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #4 of 55 in West Virginia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 94,345, the population has declined by 3,162 (−3.4%), compared with −1.5% for West Virginia as a whole.

With 281 square miles of land, that is 324 people per square mile (125 per km²), placing Cabell County #478 nationally for density and #4 in West Virginia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the West Virginia median is 45. Put another way, there are about 2 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 Cabell County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Cabell County. Together they are home to 48,413 people (53.1%); the other 42,770 (46.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Huntington city, with 41,314 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county).

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

Metropolitan area

Cabell County is a central county of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 8 county equivalents have 365,965 residents on 2,915.5 square miles of land; Cabell County accounts for 9.6% of the land and 24.9% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #102 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #156 by population. It belongs to the Charleston-Huntington-Ashland, WV-OH-KY Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

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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 Cabell County

Cabell County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 2 in Ohio. Each of them has more land than Cabell County. The largest neighbor is Wayne County (506 mi²) and the smallest is Putnam County (345.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Cabell County forms a block of 2,920.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.6%.

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

Cabell County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.7 times as much. West Virginia’s county land could hold about 86 areas the size of Cabell County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 16.8 miles (27 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 Cabell County?

Cabell County has more land than 377 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 Cabell County at #2,866 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 2.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.3 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 Cabell 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.