Calhoun County area

Population and density of Calhoun County

The Census Bureau estimates that 19,599 people lived in Calhoun County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,911 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #126 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 20,104, the population has declined by 505 (−2.5%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 506.9 square miles of land, that is 39 people per square mile (15 per km²), placing Calhoun County #1,780 nationally for density and #95 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 17 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 Calhoun County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Calhoun County. Together they are home to 12,639 people (64.5%); the other 6,960 (35.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Port Lavaca city, with 11,060 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Seadrift city grew fastest since then (+3.1%).

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

Metropolitan area

Calhoun County is a central county of the Port Lavaca, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Calhoun County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 506.9 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #429 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #522 by population. It belongs to the Victoria-Port Lavaca, TX Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Calhoun County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

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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 Calhoun County

Calhoun County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Matagorda County (1,093.1 mi²) and the smallest is Aransas County (252.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Calhoun County forms a block of 4,334.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 11.7%.

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

Calhoun County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 515 areas the size of Calhoun County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 22.5 miles (36.2 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 Calhoun County?

Calhoun County has more land than 1,173 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 Calhoun County at #741 nationally by total area, 1,308 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 50.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 49.7 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 Calhoun 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.