County Maps US

Wilkes County, Georgia

A county in Georgia, ranked 126 of 159 by population.

CountyFIPS 13317

Within Georgia
Wilkes County, highlighted, with the areas around it. Boundaries generalised from the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file; neighbour fills carry no data. The dot marks Washington, the county seat, located via the 2025 Census Gazetteer.

Download SVGFull Georgia map downloads

Population
9,540
-14 (-0.1%) since 2020
Land area
469.5
square miles. A further 1.0% of the total area is water
Population density
20.3
people per square mile, computed rather than published
County seat
Washington
Seat of county government.
Established
1784
241 years ago
Largest city
Washington city
Population 3,638.

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; Wikidata (CC0), Wikidata. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

Satellite view

Aerial imagery of Wilkes County with its boundary drawn on top. A map shows you the shape; this shows you what is inside it, and which side of the line a place falls on.

Aerial view of Wilkes County, Georgia from the USGS National Map, with its boundary outlined
Imagery: USGS National Map, USGS Imagery Only, public domain, requested from USGS by your browser when you reach this point on the page, at 800 by 755 pixels. The boundary is the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file, reprojected to Web Mercator to match the imagery. You can also open the USGS National Map viewer.

Where Wilkes County ranks

Position among the 159 counties of Georgia, and among all 3,144 US counties and county-equivalents. Computed from the figures on this page.

MeasureValueIn GeorgiaNationally
Population9,540126th of 1592,444th of 3,144
Land area469.5 sq mi33rd of 1592,193rd of 3,144
Population density20.3 per sq mi144th of 1592,236th of 3,144
Median household income$52,043113th of 1592,655th of 3,143

Full data for Wilkes County

Every figure below is attributed to the Census Bureau product it came from, with the vintage of that product.
MeasureValueSource and vintage
Population9,540Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Population in 20209,554Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
2020 estimates base?9,564Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Land area469.5 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Water area4.6 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Total area474.1 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Population density?20.3 per sq miComputed: Vintage 2025 estimates divided by 2025 Gazetteer land area
Median household income$52,043American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median home value$122,700American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median age46.0American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Households4,133American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Housing units5,254American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, released 29 January 2026. Population density is computed here, not published: it divides the Vintage 2025 population estimate by the 2025 Gazetteer land area, which are two different Census products. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

How the population changed

The Census Bureau publishes the components behind an estimate, not just the total. For the year to July 2025:

Births minus deaths
-70
94 births, 164 deaths
Net migration
+56
More people moved in than moved out.

Source: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

The 6 areas bordering Wilkes County

Ordered by the length of the border actually shared, which the Census Bureau publishes in its county adjacency file and which no other county reference presents.

Bordering areaStateShared borderPopulation
Lincoln CountyGeorgia31 mi8,112
Taliaferro CountyGeorgia28 mi1,662
Oglethorpe CountyGeorgia27 mi16,415
McDuffie CountyGeorgia22 mi21,640
Elbert CountyGeorgia8.4 mi20,072
Warren CountyGeorgia4.0 mi5,269

Source: US Census Bureau, County Adjacency File, 2025 County Adjacency File, released 15 September 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

All 159 counties of Georgia

Open the interactive Georgia county map, or jump straight to any of them.

Data on this page last rebuilt 30 August 2026. How these figures are produced.