Morgan County area

Population and density of Morgan County

The Census Bureau estimates that 18,027 people lived in Morgan County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,998 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #32 of 55 in West Virginia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 17,063, the population has grown by 964 (+5.6%), compared with −1.5% for West Virginia as a whole.

With 229.1 square miles of land, that is 79 people per square mile (30 per km²), placing Morgan County #1,172 nationally for density and #18 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 8.1 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 Morgan County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Morgan County. Together they are home to 1,169 people (6.5%); the other 16,858 (93.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Bath (Berkeley Springs) town, with 753 residents in the county. By land, Paw Paw town is the largest at 0.53 mi².

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

Metropolitan area

Morgan County is an outlying county of the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 315,280 residents on 1,008 square miles of land; Morgan County accounts for 22.7% of the land and 5.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #281 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #168 by population. It belongs to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Morgan County; 2 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

25411254222542725434

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 Morgan County

Morgan County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 3 in Maryland and Virginia. Each of them has more land than Morgan County. The largest neighbor is Hampshire County (640.4 mi²) and the smallest is Berkeley County (321.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Morgan County forms a block of 2,483.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.2%.

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

Morgan County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 4.5 times as much. West Virginia’s county land could hold about 105 areas the size of Morgan County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 15.1 miles (24.4 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 Morgan County?

Morgan County has more land than 265 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 Morgan County at #2,983 nationally by total area, 26 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 Morgan 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.