Red River County area

Population and density of Red River County

The Census Bureau estimates that 11,816 people lived in Red River County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,366 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #156 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 11,589, the population has grown by 227 (+2%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 1,043.9 square miles of land, that is 11 people per square mile (4.4 per km²), placing Red River County #2,593 nationally for density and #163 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 57 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 Red River County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Red River County. Together they are home to 5,385 people (45.6%); the other 6,431 (54.4%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Clarksville city, with 2,908 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Bogata city grew fastest since then (+3.3%).

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

Metropolitan area

Red River County is an outlying county of the Paris, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2 county equivalents have 63,319 residents on 1,951.2 square miles of land; Red River County accounts for 53.5% of the land and 18.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #83 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #148 by population.

ZIP codes

9 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Red River County; 6 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

754127541675417754267543575436755507555475559

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 Red River County

Red River County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents, including 2 in Oklahoma. It has more land than 7 of them. The largest neighbor is McCurtain County (1,850.8 mi²) and the smallest is Morris County (252 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Red River County forms a block of 6,656.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 15.7%.

How big is Red River County compared with U.S. states?

Red River 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 250 areas the size of Red River County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 32.3 miles (52 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 Red River County?

Red River County has more land than 2,595 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 Red River County at #714 nationally by total area, 87 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 1.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2%. The two percentages are within 0.1 percentage points of each other. 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 Red River 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.