Hudspeth County area

Population and density of Hudspeth County

The Census Bureau estimates that 3,433 people lived in Hudspeth County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #3,003 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #212 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 3,200, the population has grown by 233 (+7.3%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 4,570.5 square miles of land, that is 0.75 people per square mile (0.29 per km²), placing Hudspeth County #3,173 nationally for density and #245 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 852 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 Hudspeth County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Hudspeth County. Together they are home to 275 people (8%); the other 3,158 (92%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Dell City city, with 275 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Hudspeth County is an outlying county of the El Paso, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 881,291 residents on 5,584 square miles of land; Hudspeth County accounts for 81.8% of the land and 0.4% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #40 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #71 by population. It belongs to the El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Hudspeth County; 2 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

798377983979847798517985579938

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 Hudspeth County

Hudspeth County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents, including 1 in New Mexico. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Otero County (6,612.6 mi²) and the smallest is El Paso County (1,013.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hudspeth County forms a block of 18,273.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 25%.

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

Hudspeth County has more land than 2 of the 50 states. It is about 2.3 times the land area of Delaware (1,948.6 mi²), while Connecticut, the next larger state, has 1.1 times as much land (4,842.5 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 57 areas the size of Hudspeth County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 67.6 miles (108.8 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 Hudspeth County?

Hudspeth County has more land than 3,127 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 Hudspeth County at #104 nationally by total area, 9 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%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.2 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 Hudspeth 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.