Titus County area

Population and density of Titus County

The Census Bureau estimates that 31,563 people lived in Titus County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,440 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #93 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 31,247, the population has grown by 316 (+1%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 406.3 square miles of land, that is 78 people per square mile (30 per km²), placing Titus County #1,182 nationally for density and #61 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 8.2 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 Titus County

4 incorporated places lie at least partly in Titus County. Together they are home to 17,202 people (54.5%); the other 14,361 (45.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Mount Pleasant city, with 16,225 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Titus County is a central county of the Mount Pleasant, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 57,076 residents on 854.1 square miles of land; Titus County accounts for 47.6% of the land and 55.3% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #242 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #181 by population.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Titus County; 3 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

754557548775493755587557175686

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 Titus County

Titus County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Red River County (1,043.9 mi²) and the smallest is Camp County (195.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Titus County forms a block of 2,182.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 18.6%.

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

Titus County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.5 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 643 areas the size of Titus County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 20.2 miles (32.4 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 Titus County?

Titus County has more land than 727 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 Titus County at #2,464 nationally by total area, 31 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 4.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 3.4 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 Titus 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.