Texas County Population Guide

Every figure on this page is from the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program. The current numbers are the Vintage 2025 estimates for July 1, 2025. Growth figures compare them with the Bureau's April 1, 2020 estimates base, which starts from the 2020 Census.

Across all 254 counties, Texas grew from 29,149,498 to 31,709,821 people over that period, a gain of 2,560,323 (+8.8%).

These are the counties with the highest percentage growth. Nearly all of them are suburban counties on the edge of Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Austin or San Antonio, where new subdivisions are absorbing people moving out from the core counties.

Raw numbers tell a different story from percentages. The big core counties are growing more slowly in percentage terms, but they still add more residents than anywhere else.

82 counties had fewer residents in 2025 than in 2020. The steepest percentage declines were:

Small counties can swing sharply when a single employer, prison or oilfield camp opens or closes, so these percentages should be read alongside the actual numbers.

The ten most populous counties hold 18,645,770 people, 58.8% of the state's total. Meanwhile the median Texas county has only 18,916 residents, and 91 counties have fewer than 10,000. Texas is a big-city state and a small-town state at the same time, and county statistics make that unusually easy to see.

• Cite the source and year, for example: "U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county population estimates (July 1, 2025)."
• County totals include everyone in the county, not just residents of the county seat or largest city.
• Estimates are revised each year. A new vintage can change earlier years too, so use the same vintage when comparing years.
• For neighborhood-level detail, such as age, income or language, use the Census Bureau's American Community Survey tables.