Counties & local governments

Every state’s local governments

Counties, cities and towns, townships, school districts and special districts, as the Census Bureau counted them in 2022. Pick a state for its counties on a map and every government in each.

How local governments work States & territories

County governmentsMunicipal governmentsTown and township governmentsIndependent school districtsSpecial districtsEach bar is a state’s governments, by kind; “None” names a kind the state does not have.

State	All local governments	County governments	Municipal governments	Town and township governments	Independent school districts	Special districts
AlabamaNone: town and township governments	1,208	67	462	none	138	541
AlaskaNone: town and township governments, independent school districts	181	15¹	149	none	none	17
ArizonaNone: town and township governments	674	15	91	none	242	326
ArkansasNone: town and township governments	1,562	75	500	none	234	753
CaliforniaNone: town and township governments	4,494	57²	482	none	1,006	2,949
ColoradoNone: town and township governments	3,715	62³	272	none	180	3,201
ConnecticutNone: county governments	629	none⁴	30	149	17	433
DelawareNone: town and township governments	334	3	57	none	19	255
FloridaNone: town and township governments	1,947	66⁵	412	none	95	1,374
GeorgiaNone: town and township governments	1,379	152⁶	537	none	180	510
HawaiiNone: town and township governments, independent school districts	21	3⁷	1	none	none	17
IdahoNone: town and township governments	1,168	44	199	none	118	807
Illinois	6,930	102	1,295	1,425	890	3,218
Indiana	2,648	91⁸	567	1,004	290	696
IowaNone: town and township governments	1,826	99	940	none	342	445
Kansas	3,768	103⁹	624	1,267	306	1,468
KentuckyNone: town and township governments	1,307	118¹⁰	417	none	171	601
LouisianaNone: town and township governments	534	60¹¹	304	none	69	101
Maine	828	16	23	461	101	227
MarylandNone: town and township governments, independent school districts	342	23¹²	157	none	none	162
Massachusetts	856	5¹³	56	295	85	415
Michigan	2,860	83	533	1,240	567	437
Minnesota	3,629	87	854	1,779	330	579
MississippiNone: town and township governments	967	82	298	none	150	437
Missouri	3,796	114¹⁴	943	283	529	1,927
MontanaNone: town and township governments	1,228	54¹⁵	128	none	310	736
Nebraska	2,541	93	528	350	267	1,303
NevadaNone: town and township governments	187	16¹⁶	19	none	17	135
New Hampshire	538	10	13	221	166	128
New Jersey	1,328	21	323	241	521	222
New MexicoNone: town and township governments	1,003	33	105	none	96	769
New York	3,447	57¹⁷	595	930	676	1,189
North CarolinaNone: town and township governments, independent school districts	965	100	552	none	none	313
North Dakota	2,570	53	356	1,305	173	683
Ohio	3,939	88	926	1,308	665	952
OklahomaNone: town and township governments	1,840	77	592	none	539	632
OregonNone: town and township governments	1,528	36	240	none	223	1,029
Pennsylvania	4,851	66¹⁸	1,013	1,546	514	1,712
Rhode IslandNone: county governments	127	none¹⁹	8	31	4	84
South CarolinaNone: town and township governments	666	46	271	none	78	271
South Dakota	1,900	66	310	897	149	478
TennesseeNone: town and township governments	902	92²⁰	345	none	14	451
TexasNone: town and township governments	5,533	254	1,225	none	1,070	2,984
UtahNone: town and township governments	632	29	254	none	41	308
Vermont	574	14	40	237	121	162
VirginiaNone: town and township governments	522	95²¹	228	none	1^*	198
WashingtonNone: town and township governments	1,890	39	281	none	295	1,275
West VirginiaNone: town and township governments	639	55	231	none	55	298
Wisconsin	3,062	72	605	1,245	437	703
WyomingNone: town and township governments	820	23	99	none	55	643

* Virginia, independent school districts: The one is Eastern Virginia Medical School, in Norfolk, which the Census Bureau's 2022 listing files as a school district; Virginia's public schools are dependent systems of its counties and cities.

The District of Columbia has no counties, so it is not in this table; the Census Bureau counted 2 local governments there in 2022: 1 municipal government and 1 special district. The five territories are outside the Census of Governments, which covers the states and D.C.

Where a county area has no county government

A state can have fewer county governments than counties. These are the places the Census Bureau lists as county areas without one, and what governs them instead.

Alaska: Alaska has boroughs, not counties. Where no borough is organized, in the Unorganized Borough, there is no borough government, and the Census Bureau divides the area into census areas for its statistics. Anchorage, Juneau, Sitka and Wrangell are each a city and borough governed as one, which the Census Bureau counts as a city.
California: No separate county government: San Francisco County is governed together with its city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Colorado: No separate county government: Broomfield County and Denver County are each governed together with a city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Connecticut: Connecticut has no county governments: it abolished them in 1960 and gave their work to the state. Since 2022 the Census Bureau has mapped the state by its nine planning regions in place of its eight old counties.
Florida: No separate county government: Duval County is governed together with its city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Georgia: No separate county government: Bibb County, Chattahoochee County, Clarke County, Muscogee County, Quitman County, Richmond County and Webster County are each governed together with a city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Hawaii: No separate county government: Honolulu County is governed together with its city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city; Kalawao County is run by the state.
Indiana: No separate county government: Marion County is governed together with its city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Kansas: No separate county government: Greeley County and Wyandotte County are each governed together with a city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Kentucky: No separate county government: Fayette County and Jefferson County are each governed together with a city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Louisiana: No separate parish government: East Baton Rouge Parish, Lafayette Parish, Orleans Parish and Terrebonne Parish are each governed together with a city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Maryland: No separate county government: Baltimore City is an independent city, outside any county.
Massachusetts: Five of Massachusetts's fourteen counties have a county government. Of the other nine, seven have no government and the state provides their services, and Suffolk and Nantucket are governed together with the City of Boston and the Town of Nantucket.
Missouri: No separate county government: the City of St. Louis is an independent city, outside any county.
Montana: No separate county government: Deer Lodge County and Silver Bow County are each governed together with a city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Nevada: No separate county government: Carson City is an independent city, outside any county.
New York: New York City's five boroughs are counties with no county government of their own: the City of New York does their work, and the Census Bureau lists the city and its agencies under New York County.
Pennsylvania: No separate county government: Philadelphia County is governed together with its city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Rhode Island: Rhode Island has no county governments. Its five counties are geographic areas the state uses to organize its courts.
Tennessee: No separate county government: Davidson County, Moore County and Trousdale County are each governed together with a city, as one government the Census Bureau counts as a city.
Virginia: Virginia's 38 independent cities lie outside any county, and each city's government also does the work a county does elsewhere.