Morris County area

Population and density of Morris County

The Census Bureau estimates that 12,133 people lived in Morris County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,345 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #153 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 11,974, the population has grown by 159 (+1.3%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 252 square miles of land, that is 48 people per square mile (19 per km²), placing Morris County #1,589 nationally for density and #84 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 13 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 Morris County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Morris County. Together they are home to 6,281 people (51.8%); the other 5,852 (48.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Daingerfield city, with 2,539 residents in the county. By land, Hughes Springs city is the largest at 2.493 mi² across all its counties. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Daingerfield city grew fastest since then (+1%).

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

Metropolitan area

Morris County is an outlying county of the Mount Pleasant, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 57,076 residents on 854.1 square miles of land; Morris County accounts for 29.5% of the land and 21.3% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #242 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #181 by population.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Morris County; 3 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

75558755687557175638756567566875686

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 Morris County

Morris County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Red River County (1,043.9 mi²) and the smallest is Camp County (195.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Morris County forms a block of 4,683.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 5.4%.

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

Morris County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 4.1 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 1,037 areas the size of Morris County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 15.9 miles (25.5 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 Morris County?

Morris County has more land than 316 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 Morris County at #2,930 nationally by total area, 24 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 2.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.4 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 Morris 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.