 The district takes its name from a range of hills of the same name, which in turn were named by Cree Indians.In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Birch Hills County recorded a population of 1,553 living in 496 of its 616 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 1,582.With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.