{"id":10264,"date":"2012-02-26T06:52:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T11:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:00:22","slug":"largest-smallest-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/largest-smallest-population\/","title":{"rendered":"The Largest Smallest US County (population)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If the “Largest Smallest United States County” sounds fleetingly familiar, you are correct. I covered a variant of this<\/a> a couple of years ago. Count yourself among the small group of 12MC devotees who have been following along and paying attention for quite awhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently I was contacted by reader Ariel who wondered if I’d ever looked into a different angle of this same phenomenon: examining population rather than geographic size. I’d never thought about that before so I enjoyed his suggestions and I will present my findings today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, let’s make sure we all understand the concept. Consider that every U.S. state has one county with a smallest population. We’ve examined some counties with extremely small populations<\/a> previously. In Texas the county with the smallest population is Loving, with 82 residents. Which state, however, has a smallest county population that is larger<\/em> than any other state’s county with the smallest population? We know it’s not going to be Texas which comes in dead last (alas, not everything is really bigger<\/a> in Texas) so it has to be a different state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone care to guess which one anchors the opposite end of the spectrum? Think smaller states in the northeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Delaware<\/h2>\n\n\n\n