Angelina County area

Population and density of Angelina County

The Census Bureau estimates that 88,154 people lived in Angelina County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #684 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #47 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 86,511, the population has grown by 1,643 (+1.9%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 797.9 square miles of land, that is 110 people per square mile (43 per km²), placing Angelina County #929 nationally for density and #44 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 5.8 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 Angelina County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Angelina County. Together they are home to 48,289 people (54.8%); the other 39,865 (45.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Lufkin city, with 34,350 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Hudson city grew fastest since then (+9.7%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Angelina County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Angelina County is a central county of the Lufkin, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Angelina County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 797.9 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #264 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #52 by population.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Angelina County, and each lies mostly inside the county.

75901759037590475941759497596975980

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 Angelina County

Angelina County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Houston County (1,231 mi²) and the smallest is San Augustine County (530.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Angelina County forms a block of 8,172.6 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.8%.

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

Angelina County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.3 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 327 areas the size of Angelina County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 28.2 miles (45.5 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 Angelina County?

Angelina County has more land than 2,150 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 Angelina County at #1,055 nationally by total area, 17 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 7.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 6.6 percentage points higher. 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 Angelina 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.