Crosby County area

Population and density of Crosby County

The Census Bureau estimates that 4,852 people lived in Crosby County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,902 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #201 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 5,128, the population has declined by 276 (−5.4%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 900.2 square miles of land, that is 5.4 people per square mile (2.1 per km²), placing Crosby County #2,829 nationally for density and #192 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 119 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 Crosby County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Crosby County. Together they are home to 3,873 people (79.8%); the other 979 (20.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Ralls city, with 1,556 residents in the county. The county seat, Crosbyton city, has 1,407 residents. By land, Crosbyton city is the largest at 2.111 mi².

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

Metropolitan area

Crosby 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; Crosby County accounts for 17.1% of the land and 1.3% 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

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

792357924379250793227934379356793577936479370

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 Crosby County

Crosby County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is Floyd County (992.1 mi²) and the smallest is Garza County (893.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Crosby County forms a block of 4,583.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 19.6%.

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

Crosby 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 290 areas the size of Crosby County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 30 miles (48.3 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 Crosby County?

Crosby County has more land than 2,369 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 Crosby County at #964 nationally by total area, 111 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 0.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 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 Crosby 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.