US Counties by State

Browse all 3,143 US counties and county-equivalents across the 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Each state page lists every county with population, area, and median income, plus a free printable blank map.

The United States has 3,143 counties and county-equivalents — distinct administrative units that handle local government, courts, and elections. Texas leads with 254 counties; Delaware has the fewest of any state at 3. Louisiana uses the term “parish” for the same role; Alaska uses “borough” and “census area”; the District of Columbia is a single county-equivalent unto itself.

All 51 states and equivalents

Related resources

For an interactive choropleth across all 3,143 counties, see the interactive US county map. To detect which county a specific GPS location falls in, use What County Am I In? The Address to County Lookup supports batch input for spreadsheets.

Free printable blank maps for every US state are available at our blank maps library, in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

For state-by-state data analyses, see our studies — including the 100-mile radius around every state capital and the loneliest town in every state. The county-counts blog post ranks all 50 states by their number of counties.