Maverick County area

Population and density of Maverick County

The Census Bureau estimates that 58,823 people lived in Maverick County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #918 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #60 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 57,887, the population has grown by 936 (+1.6%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 1,279.5 square miles of land, that is 46 people per square mile (18 per km²), placing Maverick County #1,635 nationally for density and #85 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 14 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 Maverick County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Maverick County. Together they are home to 28,926 people (49.2%); the other 29,897 (50.8%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Eagle Pass city, with 28,926 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Maverick County is a central county of the Eagle Pass, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Maverick County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the metro area has the same 1,279.5 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #244 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #392 by population.

ZIP codes

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Maverick County, and each lies mostly inside the county.

788527886078877

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Maverick County

Maverick County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Maverick County. The largest neighbor is Webb County (3,361.5 mi²) and the smallest is Zavala County (1,297.4 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Maverick County forms a block of 8,627.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.8%.

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

Maverick County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.2 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.5 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 204 areas the size of Maverick County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 35.8 miles (57.6 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 Maverick County?

Maverick County has more land than 2,751 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 Maverick County at #537 nationally by total area, 66 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%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.2 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 Maverick 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.