Wichita County area

Population and density of Wichita County

The Census Bureau estimates that 129,555 people lived in Wichita County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #514 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #37 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 129,357, the population has grown by 198 (+0.2%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 627.6 square miles of land, that is 206 people per square mile (80 per km²), placing Wichita County #632 nationally for density and #33 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 3.1 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 Wichita County

6 incorporated places lie at least partly in Wichita County. Together they are home to 122,453 people (94.5%); the other 7,102 (5.5%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Wichita Falls city, with 101,949 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county). Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Burkburnett city grew fastest since then (+1.1%).

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

Metropolitan area

Wichita County is a central county of the Wichita Falls, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 149,448 residents on 2,619.6 square miles of land; Wichita County accounts for 24% of the land and 86.7% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #123 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #296 by population.

ZIP codes

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

7630176302763057630676308763097631076311763547636076367

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 Wichita County

Wichita County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 2 in Oklahoma. Each of them has more land than Wichita County. The largest neighbor is Clay County (1,088.8 mi²) and the smallest is Cotton County (632.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Wichita County forms a block of 5,094.4 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.3%.

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

Wichita County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.6 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 416 areas the size of Wichita County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 25.1 miles (40.3 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 Wichita County?

Wichita County has more land than 1,688 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 Wichita County at #1,635 nationally by total area, 101 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 0.8%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.3 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 Wichita 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.