Goliad County area

Population and density of Goliad County

The Census Bureau estimates that 7,208 people lived in Goliad County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,719 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #184 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 7,017, the population has grown by 191 (+2.7%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 852 square miles of land, that is 8.5 people per square mile (3.3 per km²), placing Goliad County #2,703 nationally for density and #177 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 76 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 Goliad County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Goliad County. Together they are home to 1,708 people (23.7%); the other 5,500 (76.3%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Goliad city, with 1,708 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Goliad County is an outlying county of the Victoria, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 99,864 residents on 1,734.1 square miles of land; Goliad County accounts for 49.1% of the land and 7.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #182 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #368 by population. It belongs to the Victoria-Port Lavaca, TX Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

779057796077963779937810778164

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 Goliad County

Goliad County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 2 of them. The largest neighbor is DeWitt County (909 mi²) and the smallest is Karnes County (747.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Goliad County forms a block of 5,041.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 16.9%.

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

Goliad County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.2 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 307 areas the size of Goliad County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29.2 miles (47 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 Goliad County?

Goliad County has more land than 2,246 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 Goliad County at #1,075 nationally by total area, 99 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 0.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 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 Goliad 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.