Rhode Island County Map

Rhode Island has 5 counties. Together they cover 1,034 sq mi of land and 1,114,521 people.

Boundaries from the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file, generalised so that no point moves by more than half a pixel at this width. Select any area to open its page.

Counties: 5; 49th most of the 51 states and DC
Population: 1,114,521; 44th largest
Land area: 1,034; square miles
Density: 1,078; people per square mile, computed

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Satellite view

Aerial imagery of Rhode Island with the state boundary drawn on top. County lines are not drawn here: at this scale they would bury the picture, and the map above already carries them.

Aerial view of Rhode Island 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 540 by 800 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.

The extremes of Rhode Island

Most populous

Providence County

678,179

Least populous

Bristol County

50,001

Largest by land area

Providence County

409.5 sq mi

Smallest by land area

Bristol County

24.1 sq mi

Most densely populated

Bristol County

2,072 per sq mi

Highest median household income

Bristol County

$114,490

Which is the largest county in Rhode Island? The answer depends on whether you mean area or population.

The counties, by shape

Every one, drawn to its own scale so the small ones stay recognisable. Shape alone is not a size comparison; the table below carries the areas.

What the map does not say

The counties of Rhode Island are nowhere near the same size. Providence County covers 409.5 sq mi of land, 17.0 times the 24.1 sq mi of Bristol County. People are spread even less evenly: Bristol County packs 2,072 per sq mi while Washington County holds 394 per sq mi.

They were not drawn in one sitting either. Providence County dates to 1703, and the boundaries were still being redrawn when Kent County was organised in 1750, 47 years later. Founding years come from Wikidata and are worth checking against the county's own history before citing.

Water is part of the picture too: 67.3% of Newport County is water, the most in the state, which is why its land area and total area disagree. And 3 of the 5 counties here share their names with counties in other states, so searching by name alone can land in the wrong place; the A to Z index lists every duplicate.

All 5 counties of Rhode Island

Sortable on any column. This table doubles as the text alternative to the map above: every area is a link, in alphabetical order, whether or not the map renders.

The 5 counties of Rhode Island, with population, land area, density, median household income, county seat and FIPS code.
Name	Population	Land area	Density	Median income	Seat	FIPS
Bristol County	50,001	24.1 sq mi	2,072 per sq mi	$114,490	Bristol	44001
Kent County	173,495	168.6 sq mi	1,029 per sq mi	$94,345	East Greenwich	44003
Newport County	83,051	102.4 sq mi	811 per sq mi	$103,514	Newport	44005
Providence County	678,179	409.5 sq mi	1,656 per sq mi	$78,787	Providence	44007
Washington County	129,795	329.3 sq mi	394 per sq mi	$106,638	South Kingstown	44009

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; Wikidata (CC0), Wikidata. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

The ten most populous

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