Coryell County area

Population and density of Coryell County

The Census Bureau estimates that 85,592 people lived in Coryell County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #698 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #49 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 83,092, the population has grown by 2,500 (+3%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 1,052.2 square miles of land, that is 81 people per square mile (31 per km²), placing Coryell County #1,144 nationally for density and #56 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 7.9 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 Coryell County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Coryell County. Together they are home to 56,644 people (66.2%); the other 28,948 (33.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Copperas Cove city, with 39,035 residents in the county (the city extends into 2 other counties). The county seat, Gatesville city, has 16,422 residents. By land, McGregor city is the largest at 23.1 mi² across all its counties. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Copperas Cove city grew fastest since then (+9.1%).

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

Metropolitan area

Coryell County is a central county of the Killeen-Temple, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 511,497 residents on 2,818.6 square miles of land; Coryell County accounts for 37.3% of the land and 16.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #105 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #111 by population.

ZIP codes

17 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Coryell County; 9 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 Coryell County

Coryell County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Bell County (1,053.8 mi²) and the smallest is Lampasas County (712.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Coryell County forms a block of 5,674.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 18.5%.

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

Coryell County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.9 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 248 areas the size of Coryell County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 32.4 miles (52.2 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 Coryell County?

Coryell County has more land than 2,601 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 Coryell County at #713 nationally by total area, 92 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 0.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.7 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 Coryell 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.