Camp County area

Population and density of Camp County

The Census Bureau estimates that 13,380 people lived in Camp County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,267 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #149 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 12,464, the population has grown by 916 (+7.3%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 195.8 square miles of land, that is 68 people per square mile (26 per km²), placing Camp County #1,277 nationally for density and #66 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 9.4 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 Camp County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Camp County. Together they are home to 4,735 people (35.4%); the other 8,645 (64.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Pittsburg city, with 4,676 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Camp County is an outlying county of the Mount Pleasant, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 57,076 residents on 854.1 square miles of land; Camp County accounts for 22.9% of the land and 23.4% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #242 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #181 by population.

ZIP codes

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

7545175686

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 Camp County

Camp County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Camp County. The largest neighbor is Wood County (645.3 mi²) and the smallest is Morris County (252 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Camp County forms a block of 2,366.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 8.3%.

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

Camp County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 5.3 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 1,334 areas the size of Camp County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 14 miles (22.5 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 Camp County?

Camp County has more land than 219 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 Camp County at #3,017 nationally by total area, 14 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 3.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.5 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 Camp 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.