Reeves County area

Population and density of Reeves County

The Census Bureau estimates that 12,138 people lived in Reeves County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,344 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #152 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 14,743, the population has declined by 2,605 (−17.7%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 2,635.4 square miles of land, that is 4.6 people per square mile (1.8 per km²), placing Reeves County #2,866 nationally for density and #201 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 139 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 Reeves County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Reeves County. Together they are home to 10,845 people (89.3%); the other 1,293 (10.7%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Town of Pecos city, with 10,386 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Reeves County is a central county of the Town of Pecos, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Reeves County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 2,635.4 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #59 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #542 by population.

ZIP codes

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

7971879770797727978079785

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 Reeves County

Reeves County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 1 in New Mexico. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Pecos County (4,763.8 mi²) and the smallest is Loving County (668.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Reeves County forms a block of 19,156.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 13.8%.

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

Reeves County has more land than 2 of the 50 states. It is about 1.4 times the land area of Delaware (1,948.6 mi²), while Connecticut, the next larger state, has 1.8 times as much land (4,842.5 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 99 areas the size of Reeves County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 51.3 miles (82.6 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 Reeves County?

Reeves County has more land than 3,021 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 Reeves County at #215 nationally by total area, 14 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 0.3%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.9 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 Reeves 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.