Val Verde County area

Population and density of Val Verde County

The Census Bureau estimates that 47,835 people lived in Val Verde County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,054 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #76 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 47,587, the population has grown by 248 (+0.5%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 3,144.8 square miles of land, that is 15 people per square mile (5.9 per km²), placing Val Verde County #2,466 nationally for density and #151 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 42 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 Val Verde County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Val Verde County. Together they are home to 34,496 people (72.1%); the other 13,339 (27.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Del Rio city, with 34,496 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Val Verde County is a central county of the Del Rio, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Val Verde County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 3,144.8 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #45 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #243 by population.

ZIP codes

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

7694376950788377884078841788427884378871

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 Val Verde County

Val Verde County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Crockett County (2,807.3 mi²) and the smallest is Kinney County (1,360.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Val Verde County forms a block of 13,242.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 23.7%.

How big is Val Verde County compared with U.S. states?

Val Verde County has more land than 2 of the 50 states. It is about 1.6 times the land area of Delaware (1,948.6 mi²), while Connecticut, the next larger state, has 1.5 times as much land (4,842.5 mi²). Texas’s county land could hold about 83 areas the size of Val Verde County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 56.1 miles (90.2 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 Val Verde County?

Val Verde County has more land than 3,058 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 Val Verde County at #171 nationally by total area, 7 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 2.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.6 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 Val Verde 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.