Wilbarger County area

Population and density of Wilbarger County

The Census Bureau estimates that 12,481 people lived in Wilbarger County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #2,325 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #151 of 254 in Texas. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 12,887, the population has declined by 406 (−3.2%), compared with +8.8% for Texas as a whole.

With 970.9 square miles of land, that is 13 people per square mile (5 per km²), placing Wilbarger County #2,545 nationally for density and #157 in Texas. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Texas median is 22. Put another way, there are about 50 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 Wilbarger County

1 incorporated place lies at least partly in Wilbarger County. Together they are home to 9,747 people (78.1%); the other 2,734 (21.9%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Vernon city, with 9,747 residents in the county.

Metropolitan area

Wilbarger County is a central county of the Vernon, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. Wilbarger County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 970.9 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #189 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #541 by population.

ZIP codes

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Wilbarger County; 4 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

763607636476373763847922579247

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 Wilbarger County

Wilbarger County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents, including 2 in Oklahoma. It has more land than every one of them. The largest neighbor is Tillman County (871.1 mi²) and the smallest is Wichita County (627.6 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Wilbarger County forms a block of 5,539.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 17.5%.

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

Wilbarger County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.1 times as much. Texas’s county land could hold about 269 areas the size of Wilbarger County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 31.2 miles (50.1 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 Wilbarger County?

Wilbarger County has more land than 2,503 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 Wilbarger County at #807 nationally by total area, 88 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 0.7%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.5 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 Wilbarger 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.