Hutchinson County area

Population and density of Hutchinson County

The Census Bureau estimates that 19,633 people lived in Hutchinson County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,907 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #125 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 20,611, the population has declined by 978 (−4.7%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 887.4 square miles of land, that is 22 people per square mile (8.5 per km²), placing Hutchinson County #2,243 nationally for density and #128 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 29 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 Hutchinson County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Hutchinson County. Together they are home to 15,308 people (78%); the other 4,325 (22%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Borger city, with 11,842 residents in the county. The county seat, Stinnett city, has 1,594 residents.

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

Metropolitan area

Hutchinson County is a central county of the Borger, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Hutchinson County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 887.4 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #222 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #520 by population. It belongs to the Amarillo-Borger, TX Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

7900779008790367906279078790807908179083

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 Hutchinson County

Hutchinson County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Hutchinson County. The largest neighbor is Roberts County (924.1 mi²) and the smallest is Moore County (899.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hutchinson County forms a block of 4,551.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 19.5%.

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

Hutchinson 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 294 areas the size of Hutchinson County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29.8 miles (47.9 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 Hutchinson County?

Hutchinson County has more land than 2,325 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 Hutchinson County at #995 nationally by total area, 98 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 0.8%, 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 Hutchinson 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.