Uvalde County area

Population and density of Uvalde County

The Census Bureau estimates that 24,963 people lived in Uvalde County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,670 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #103 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 24,565, the population has grown by 398 (+1.6%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 1,551.9 square miles of land, that is 16 people per square mile (6.2 per km²), placing Uvalde County #2,437 nationally for density and #146 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 40 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 Uvalde County

2 incorporated places lie at least partly in Uvalde County. Together they are home to 16,833 people (67.4%); the other 8,130 (32.6%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Uvalde city, with 15,455 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Uvalde city grew fastest since then (+1.6%).

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

Metropolitan area

Uvalde County is a central county of the Uvalde, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Uvalde County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 1,551.9 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #104 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #481 by population.

ZIP codes

8 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Uvalde County; 5 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

7880178802788337883878870788797888178884

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 Uvalde County

Uvalde County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 5 of them. The largest neighbor is Edwards County (2,117.9 mi²) and the smallest is Real County (699.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Uvalde County forms a block of 9,143.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 17%.

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

Uvalde County has more land than 1 of the 50 states. It is about 1.5 times the land area of Rhode Island (1,033.9 mi²), while Delaware, the next larger state, has 1.3 times as much land (1,948.6 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 168 areas the size of Uvalde County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 39.4 miles (63.4 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 Uvalde County?

Uvalde County has more land than 2,833 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 Uvalde County at #429 nationally by total area, 40 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 0.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.7 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 Uvalde 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.