Liberty County area

Population and density of Liberty County

The Census Bureau estimates that 121,364 people lived in Liberty County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #539 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #40 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 91,661, the population has grown by 29,703 (+32.4%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 1,158.5 square miles of land, that is 105 people per square mile (40 per km²), placing Liberty County #953 nationally for density and #47 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 6.1 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 Liberty County

13 incorporated places lie at least partly in Liberty County. Together they are home to 36,113 people (29.8%); the other 85,251 (70.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Dayton city, with 10,226 residents in the county. The county seat, Liberty city, has 9,133 residents. By land, Liberty city is the largest at 44.5 mi². Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Plum Grove city grew fastest since then (+37.7%).

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

Metropolitan area

Liberty County is an outlying county of the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 10 county equivalents have 7,904,627 residents on 8,839.2 square miles of land; Liberty County accounts for 13.1% of the land and 1.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #9 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #5 by population. It belongs to the Houston-Pasadena, TX Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

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

773277732877357773687736977371773727753377535775387756177564775757758277629

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 Liberty County

Liberty County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than 6 of them. The largest neighbor is Harris County (1,707.3 mi²) and the smallest is San Jacinto County (569.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Liberty County forms a block of 7,898.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.7%.

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

Liberty County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.1 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.7 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 226 areas the size of Liberty County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 34 miles (54.8 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 Liberty County?

Liberty County has more land than 2,689 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 Liberty County at #603 nationally by total area, 70 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 1.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.4 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 Liberty 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.