San Saba County area

Population and density of San Saba County

The Census Bureau estimates that 5,787 people lived in San Saba County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,825 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #193 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 5,721, the population has grown by 66 (+1.2%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 1,135.3 square miles of land, that is 5.1 people per square mile (2 per km²), placing San Saba County #2,846 nationally for density and #196 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 126 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 San Saba County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in San Saba County. Together they are home to 3,381 people (58.4%); the other 2,406 (41.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is San Saba city, with 3,126 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

San Saba County is not part of any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area in the Office of Management and Budget’s July 2023 delineation; 1,306 other county equivalents are also outside one. These areas are built around an urban core of at least 10,000 people plus the counties tied to it by commuting, so counties outside them are generally rural.

ZIP codes

8 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in San Saba County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

7682476832768427685376869768717687276877

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 San Saba County

San Saba County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is McCulloch County (1,065.6 mi²) and the smallest is Lampasas County (712.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, San Saba County forms a block of 7,463.9 mi² of land, of which it holds 15.2%.

How big is San Saba County compared with U.S. states?

San Saba County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.1 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.7 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 230 areas the size of San Saba County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 33.7 miles (54.2 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 San Saba County?

San Saba County has more land than 2,673 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 San Saba County at #634 nationally by total area, 85 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 San Saba 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.