Hopkins County area

Population and density of Hopkins County

The Census Bureau estimates that 39,063 people lived in Hopkins County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,230 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #83 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 36,797, the population has grown by 2,266 (+6.2%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 767.4 square miles of land, that is 51 people per square mile (20 per km²), placing Hopkins County #1,527 nationally for density and #79 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 13 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 Hopkins County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Hopkins County. Together they are home to 18,881 people (48.3%); the other 20,182 (51.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Sulphur Springs city, with 17,054 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Hopkins County is a central county of the Sulphur Springs, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Hopkins County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 767.4 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #279 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #331 by population. It belongs to the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

75420754317543375437754407545375471754727547875481754827549475497

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 Hopkins County

Hopkins County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Hunt County (840.4 mi²) and the smallest is Rains County (229.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hopkins County forms a block of 3,023.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 25.4%.

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

Hopkins 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 340 areas the size of Hopkins County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 27.7 miles (44.6 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 Hopkins County?

Hopkins County has more land than 2,091 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 Hopkins County at #1,199 nationally by total area, 68 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 3.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2 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 Hopkins 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.