Cochran County area

Population and density of Cochran County

The Census Bureau estimates that 2,546 people lived in Cochran County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #3,069 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #228 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 2,545, the population has grown by 1 (+0%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 775.1 square miles of land, that is 3.3 people per square mile (1.3 per km²), placing Cochran County #2,957 nationally for density and #216 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 195 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 Cochran County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Cochran County. Together they are home to 2,060 people (80.9%); the other 486 (19.1%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Morton city, with 1,689 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Cochran County is an outlying county of the Lubbock, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 6 county equivalents have 368,431 residents on 5,264.6 square miles of land; Cochran County accounts for 14.7% of the land and 0.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #47 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #155 by population. It belongs to the Lubbock-Plainview, TX Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Cochran County; 3 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

79314793367934679379

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 Cochran County

Cochran County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 2 in New Mexico. Each of them has more land than Cochran County. The largest neighbor is Lea County (4,391.6 mi²) and the smallest is Yoakum County (799.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Cochran County forms a block of 10,147.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 7.6%.

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

Cochran County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.3 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 337 areas the size of Cochran County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 27.8 miles (44.8 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 Cochran County?

Cochran County has more land than 2,100 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 Cochran County at #1,227 nationally by total area, 105 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% — 1.2 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 Cochran 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.