Archer County area

Population and density of Archer County

The Census Bureau estimates that 9,129 people lived in Archer County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,550 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #172 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 8,552, the population has grown by 577 (+6.7%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 903.3 square miles of land, that is 10 people per square mile (3.9 per km²), placing Archer County #2,640 nationally for density and #169 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 63 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 Archer County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Archer County. Together they are home to 5,614 people (61.5%); the other 3,515 (38.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Holliday city, with 1,733 residents in the county. The county seat, Archer City city, has 1,627 residents. By land, Scotland city is the largest at 7.893 mi². Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Lakeside City town grew fastest since then (+21.5%).

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

Metropolitan area

Archer County is an outlying county of the Wichita Falls, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 149,448 residents on 2,619.6 square miles of land; Archer County accounts for 34.5% of the land and 6.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #123 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #296 by population.

ZIP codes

10 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Archer County; 5 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

76302763087631076351763607636676370763747637976389

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Archer County

Archer County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Clay County (1,088.8 mi²) and the smallest is Wichita County (627.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Archer County forms a block of 5,312.6 mi² of land, of which it holds 17%.

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

Archer County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.1 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 289 areas the size of Archer County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 30.1 miles (48.4 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 Archer County?

Archer County has more land than 2,385 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 Archer County at #887 nationally by total area, 50 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 2.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.2 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 Archer 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.