Live Oak County area

Population and density of Live Oak County

The Census Bureau estimates that 11,929 people lived in Live Oak County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,355 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #155 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 11,335, the population has grown by 594 (+5.2%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 1,039.7 square miles of land, that is 11 people per square mile (4.4 per km²), placing Live Oak County #2,590 nationally for density and #162 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 56 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 Live Oak County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Live Oak County. Together they are home to 3,970 people (33.3%); the other 7,959 (66.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is George West city, with 2,238 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Three Rivers city grew fastest since then (+17.4%).

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

Metropolitan area

Live Oak County is not part of any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area in the Office of Management and Budget’s July 2023 delineation; 1,306 other county equivalents are also outside one. These areas are built around an urban core of at least 10,000 people plus the counties tied to it by commuting, so counties outside them are generally rural.

ZIP codes

10 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Live Oak County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

78008780227807178075781027811878119783687837278383

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 Live Oak County

Live Oak County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Duval County (1,793.5 mi²) and the smallest is San Patricio County (693.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Live Oak County forms a block of 8,379 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.4%.

How big is Live Oak County compared with U.S. states?

Live Oak County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.9 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 251 areas the size of Live Oak County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 32.2 miles (51.9 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 Live Oak County?

Live Oak County has more land than 2,588 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 Live Oak County at #690 nationally by total area, 56 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 3.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.5 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 Live Oak 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.