Andrews County area

Population and density of Andrews County

The Census Bureau estimates that 18,914 people lived in Andrews County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,944 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #128 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 18,611, the population has grown by 303 (+1.6%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 1,500.7 square miles of land, that is 13 people per square mile (4.9 per km²), placing Andrews County #2,557 nationally for density and #159 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 51 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Andrews County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Andrews County. Together they are home to 13,665 people (72.2%); the other 5,249 (27.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Andrews city, with 13,665 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Andrews County is a central county of the Andrews, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Andrews County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 1,500.7 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #109 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #526 by population. It belongs to the Midland-Odessa-Andrews, TX Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area has land in Andrews County, and it lies mostly inside the county.

79714

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Andrews County

Andrews County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 1 in New Mexico. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Lea County (4,391.6 mi²) and the smallest is Winkler County (841.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Andrews County forms a block of 10,949.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.7%.

How big is Andrews County compared with U.S. states?

Andrews County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.5 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.3 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 174 areas the size of Andrews County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 38.7 miles (62.3 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Andrews County?

Andrews County has more land than 2,823 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Andrews County at #452 nationally by total area, 53 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 0%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.1 percentage points lower. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Andrews County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.