Hood County area

Population and density of Hood County

The Census Bureau estimates that 70,501 people lived in Hood County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #794 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #54 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 61,592, the population has grown by 8,909 (+14.5%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 420.7 square miles of land, that is 168 people per square mile (65 per km²), placing Hood County #717 nationally for density and #36 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 3.8 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 Hood County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Hood County. Together they are home to 20,104 people (28.5%); the other 50,397 (71.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Granbury city, with 13,263 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Granbury city grew fastest since then (+21%).

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

Metropolitan area

Hood County is a central county of the Granbury, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Hood County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 420.7 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #469 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #106 by population. It belongs to the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

7603376035760487604976087764337646276476

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 Hood County

Hood County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Erath County (1,083.2 mi²) and the smallest is Somervell County (186.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hood County forms a block of 4,271.5 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.9%.

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

Hood County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.5 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 621 areas the size of Hood County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20.5 miles (33 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 Hood County?

Hood County has more land than 814 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 Hood County at #2,405 nationally by total area, 3 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 3.7%, 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 Hood 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.