Doddridge County area

Population and density of Doddridge County

The Census Bureau estimates that 7,634 people lived in Doddridge County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,673 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #47 of 55 in West Virginia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 7,805, the population has declined by 171 (−2.2%), compared with −1.5% for West Virginia as a whole.

With 319.7 square miles of land, that is 24 people per square mile (9.2 per km²), placing Doddridge County #2,177 nationally for density and #44 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 27 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 Doddridge County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Doddridge County. Together they are home to 647 people (8.5%); the other 6,987 (91.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is West Union town, with 647 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Doddridge County is an outlying county of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 88,142 residents on 908.5 square miles of land; Doddridge County accounts for 35.2% of the land and 8.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #208 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #53 by population. It belongs to the Fairmont-Clarksburg, WV Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

26320263212633926411264152642626436264432644826456

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 Doddridge County

Doddridge County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Ritchie County (452 mi²) and the smallest is Tyler County (256.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Doddridge County forms a block of 2,527.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.6%.

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

Doddridge County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.2 times as much. West Virginia’s county land could hold about 75 areas the size of Doddridge County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 17.9 miles (28.8 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 Doddridge County?

Doddridge County has more land than 458 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 Doddridge County at #2,806 nationally by total area, 42 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 Doddridge 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.