Texas Counties

Complete list of all 254 counties in Texas with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.

Counties

254

Population

30,263,444

Area

261,232 sq mi

Capital

Austin

Time Zone

Central (CT)

Labeled outline map of Texas counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.

All 255 Texas counties

County	County Seat	Population ▼	Area	Median Income	Cities
Harris	—	4,851,657	1,703 mi²	$80,991	26
Dallas	—	2,706,825	871 mi²	$81,432	20
Bexar	—	2,079,418	1,240 mi²	$77,076	14
Tarrant	—	2,056,498	864 mi²	$91,127	19
Travis	—	1,401,963	990 mi²	$107,499	9
Collin	—	1,198,933	841 mi²	$126,466	20
Denton	—	924,840	878 mi²	$119,384	16
Hidalgo	—	891,915	1,571 mi²	$54,729	21
El Paso	—	871,270	1,013 mi²	$61,702	8
Fort Bend	—	855,396	861 mi²	$119,959	16
Montgomery	—	673,113	1,042 mi²	$103,065	11
Williamson	—	591,187	1,118 mi²	$114,828	16
Cameron	—	425,684	891 mi²	$54,093	14
Brazoria	—	411,229	1,358 mi²	$102,185	16
Galveston	—	379,967	378 mi²	$93,573	13

How many counties does Texas have?

Texas has 254 counties covering 261,232 square miles and roughly 30,263,444 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1845 as the 28th state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.

The largest county by land area is Brewster County at 6,184 square miles, home to about 9,440 residents. The most populous is Harris County with approximately 4,851,657 residents — a density of about 2,849 people per square mile.

At the other end of the scale, Loving County has only about 33 residents.

Texas’s capital is Austin, while the largest city is Houston — a common pattern in the United States, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.

Related resources

Download a printable outline of Texas’s county boundaries from our blank map of Texas page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Texas county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.

For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Texas address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.

Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Texas specifically: the 100-mile radius around Austin measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Texas ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Texas’s 254 counties in national context.

Frequently asked questions

Texas has 254 counties. The state was admitted to the Union in 1845 as the 28th state. County boundaries have shifted over time as the population spread and new administrative units were carved from existing ones.

Brewster County is the largest by land area at 6,184 square miles, with about 9,440 residents.

Harris County is the most populous, with approximately 4,851,657 residents over 1,703 square miles.

Loving County has the smallest population at about 33 residents.

Austin is the state capital. The largest city is Houston — a common pattern in the US, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.

Population, area, and demographic figures are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data (via the SimpleMaps dataset) and the US Census Gazetteer. County boundaries used to render the map are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. The data is public domain.

Data sources

Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.

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