Nacogdoches County area

Population and density of Nacogdoches County

The Census Bureau estimates that 66,035 people lived in Nacogdoches County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #846 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #58 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 64,666, the population has grown by 1,369 (+2.1%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 946.3 square miles of land, that is 70 people per square mile (27 per km²), placing Nacogdoches County #1,263 nationally for density and #65 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 9.2 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 Nacogdoches County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Nacogdoches County. Together they are home to 34,848 people (52.8%); the other 31,187 (47.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Nacogdoches city, with 32,500 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Nacogdoches County is a central county of the Nacogdoches, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Nacogdoches County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 946.3 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #197 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #135 by population.

ZIP codes

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

75760757887593775943759447594675961759627596475965

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 Nacogdoches County

Nacogdoches County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Cherokee County (1,053 mi²) and the smallest is San Augustine County (530.7 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Nacogdoches County forms a block of 5,047.6 mi² of land, of which it holds 18.7%.

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

Nacogdoches County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.1 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 276 areas the size of Nacogdoches County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 30.8 miles (49.5 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 Nacogdoches County?

Nacogdoches County has more land than 2,475 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 Nacogdoches County at #800 nationally by total area, 53 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 3.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.4 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 Nacogdoches 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.