Lubbock County area

Population and density of Lubbock County

The Census Bureau estimates that 328,906 people lived in Lubbock County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #229 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #18 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 310,646, the population has grown by 18,260 (+5.9%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 895.6 square miles of land, that is 367 people per square mile (142 per km²), placing Lubbock County #440 nationally for density and #22 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 1.7 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 Lubbock County

9 incorporated places lie at least partly in Lubbock County. Together they are home to 295,611 people (89.9%); the other 33,295 (10.1%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Lubbock city, with 273,071 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Wolfforth city grew fastest since then (+57.8%).

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

Metropolitan area

Lubbock County is a central county of the Lubbock, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 6 county equivalents have 368,431 residents on 5,264.6 square miles of land; Lubbock County accounts for 17% of the land and 89.3% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #47 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #155 by population. It belongs to the Lubbock-Plainview, TX Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

26 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Lubbock County; 20 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

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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 Lubbock County

Lubbock County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Hale County (1,004.7 mi²) and the smallest is Lynn County (891.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Lubbock County forms a block of 4,600.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 19.5%.

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

Lubbock 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 292 areas the size of Lubbock County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29.9 miles (48.2 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 Lubbock County?

Lubbock County has more land than 2,349 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 Lubbock County at #971 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 0.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.6 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 Lubbock 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.