Walker County area

Population and density of Walker County

The Census Bureau estimates that 83,842 people lived in Walker County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #707 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #50 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 76,409, the population has grown by 7,433 (+9.7%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 784.2 square miles of land, that is 107 people per square mile (41 per km²), placing Walker County #938 nationally for density and #45 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 6 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 Walker County

3 incorporated places lie at least partly in Walker County. Together they are home to 50,731 people (60.5%); the other 33,111 (39.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Huntsville city, with 49,088 residents in the county.

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

Metropolitan area

Walker County is a central county of the Huntsville, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Walker County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 784.2 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #273 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #62 by population. It belongs to the Houston-Pasadena, TX Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Walker County; 7 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

7585275862773207733477340773417734277358773677783177873

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 Walker County

Walker County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Houston County (1,231 mi²) and the smallest is Madison County (466.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Walker County forms a block of 5,574.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.1%.

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

Walker County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.3 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 333 areas the size of Walker County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 28 miles (45.1 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 Walker County?

Walker County has more land than 2,118 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 Walker County at #1,176 nationally by total area, 72 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 2.2%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1 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 Walker 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.