Brooks County area

Population and density of Brooks County

The Census Bureau estimates that 6,579 people lived in Brooks County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,770 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #189 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 7,126, the population has declined by 547 (−7.7%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 943.4 square miles of land, that is 7 people per square mile (2.7 per km²), placing Brooks County #2,767 nationally for density and #182 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 92 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 Brooks County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Brooks County. Together they are home to 4,248 people (64.6%); the other 2,331 (35.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Falfurrias city, with 4,248 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Brooks County is an outlying county of the Alice, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 45,383 residents on 1,808.5 square miles of land; Brooks County accounts for 52.2% of the land and 14.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #89 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #270 by population. It belongs to the Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice, TX Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

7835378355

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 Brooks County

Brooks County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Duval County (1,793.5 mi²) and the smallest is Jim Wells County (865.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Brooks County forms a block of 9,872.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.6%.

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

Brooks 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 277 areas the size of Brooks County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 30.7 miles (49.4 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 Brooks County?

Brooks County has more land than 2,467 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 Brooks County at #858 nationally by total area, 103 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 Brooks 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.