Bowie County area

Population and density of Bowie County

The Census Bureau estimates that 92,696 people lived in Bowie County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #666 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #44 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 92,894, the population has declined by 198 (−0.2%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 884.9 square miles of land, that is 105 people per square mile (40 per km²), placing Bowie County #954 nationally for density and #48 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 6.1 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 Bowie County

10 incorporated places lie at least partly in Bowie County. Together they are home to 57,958 people (62.5%); the other 34,738 (37.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Texarkana city, with 36,195 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Nash city grew fastest since then (+12%).

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

Metropolitan area

Bowie County is a central county of the Texarkana, TX-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 146,816 residents on 2,040.2 square miles of land; Bowie County accounts for 43.4% of the land and 63.1% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #154 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #300 by population.

ZIP codes

10 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Bowie County; 9 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

75501755037555475559755617556775569755707557375574

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 Bowie County

Bowie County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 3 in Arkansas and Oklahoma. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is McCurtain County (1,850.8 mi²) and the smallest is Morris County (252 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Bowie County forms a block of 6,123.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.5%.

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

Bowie County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.2 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 295 areas the size of Bowie County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29.7 miles (47.9 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 Bowie County?

Bowie County has more land than 2,321 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 Bowie County at #893 nationally by total area, 8 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 4.1%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.9 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 Bowie 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.