Robertson County area

Population and density of Robertson County

The Census Bureau estimates that 17,839 people lived in Robertson County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,009 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #135 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 16,755, the population has grown by 1,084 (+6.5%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 855.2 square miles of land, that is 21 people per square mile (8.1 per km²), placing Robertson County #2,294 nationally for density and #132 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 31 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 Robertson County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Robertson County. Together they are home to 8,403 people (47.1%); the other 9,436 (52.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Hearne city, with 4,719 residents in the county. The county seat, Franklin city, has 1,805 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Franklin city grew fastest since then (+12%).

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

Metropolitan area

Robertson County is an outlying county of the College Station-Bryan, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 287,476 residents on 2,100.4 square miles of land; Robertson County accounts for 40.7% of the land and 6.2% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #151 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #176 by population.

ZIP codes

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

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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 Robertson County

Robertson County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Leon County (1,073.2 mi²) and the smallest is Brazos County (586.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Robertson County forms a block of 5,860.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.6%.

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

Robertson County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.2 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 306 areas the size of Robertson County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 29.2 miles (47.1 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 Robertson County?

Robertson County has more land than 2,248 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 Robertson County at #1,053 nationally by total area, 79 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 Robertson 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.