Hunt County area

Population and density of Hunt County

The Census Bureau estimates that 123,336 people lived in Hunt County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #531 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #39 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 99,959, the population has grown by 23,377 (+23.4%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 840.4 square miles of land, that is 147 people per square mile (57 per km²), placing Hunt County #785 nationally for density and #40 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 4.4 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 Hunt County

15 incorporated places lie at least partly in Hunt County. Together they are home to 67,416 people (54.7%); the other 55,920 (45.3%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Greenville city, with 37,069 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Caddo Mills city grew fastest since then (+284.3%).

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

Metropolitan area

Hunt County is an outlying county of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area, in the Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX metropolitan division. Its 11 county equivalents have 8,477,157 residents on 8,675.6 square miles of land; Hunt County accounts for 9.7% of the land and 1.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #11 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #4 by population. It belongs to the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

18 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Hunt County; 10 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

751357516075169751897540175402754227542375428754297543375442754497545275453754697547475496

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 Hunt County

Hunt County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents. It has more land than 5 of them. The largest neighbor is Fannin County (877.9 mi²) and the smallest is Rockwall County (127.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hunt County forms a block of 5,564.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 15.1%.

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

Hunt 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 311 areas the size of Hunt County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29 miles (46.7 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 Hunt County?

Hunt County has more land than 2,229 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 Hunt County at #1,023 nationally by total area, 30 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 4.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 3.5 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 Hunt 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.