Figure 1
Foreign-born residents, Texas counties

Foreign-born residents by Texas county · all 254 counties · hover or tap a county for every figure on this page
Texas has 5.1 million foreign-born residents, 17 per cent of everyone in the state, but a typical county looks nothing like that. The middle county has 1,221 people born outside the United States, 7.4 per cent of its residents. Harris County alone has 1.26 million, more than a quarter of the people who live there. Cottle and Roberts report none. Ten counties hold 75 per cent of every foreign-born Texan, so treating a county share as a state figure, or averaging the 254 shares, would miss where people actually live.
Foreign-born · all 254 · ranked high to low
The complete ranking, nothing left out. Harris County has 1,256,380 foreign-born residents, more than Dallas, Tarrant and Bexar combined. The ten largest counties hold 75 per cent of every foreign-born Texan. The middle county has 1,221. 115 counties have fewer than 1,000, 23 have fewer than 100, and Cottle and Roberts report none.
Foreign-born share · all 254 · ranked high to low
Share of residents born outside the United States, every county the Census published. Kenedy is highest at 38.5 per cent, but that is 20 people in a county of 52. Among larger counties, Maverick (30.6), Fort Bend (30.0) and Harris (26.4) sit near the top. The middle county is 7.4 per cent. 73 counties are under 5 per cent, and Cottle and Roberts are at zero. The statewide share is 17 per cent, pulled up by the big metro counties.
Foreign-born share against foreign-born · one point per row, 254 of 254 plotted
Each point is one county. The relationship between the count and the share is weak (correlation 0.36): a high share does not mean a large foreign-born population. Harris, Dallas and Fort Bend combine large counts with shares above 24 per cent. Maverick, Ochiltree and Presidio have high shares on much smaller bases. Cottle and Roberts sit at zero. The typical county is far below the statewide 17 per cent share.
254 rows · 5 columns · sorted by foreign-born, high to low
The full dataset: all 254 counties with total residents, native-born, foreign-born and the foreign-born share, sorted by the foreign-born count and re-sortable on any column. Use the filter box to jump straight to a county by name. The share is that county's foreign-born residents divided by that county's total. It is not a state figure, and the 254 shares cannot be averaged into one.
| ? | ? | ? | ? | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harris | 4,758,579 | 3,502,199 | 1,256,380 | 26.4% |
| Dallas | 2,603,816 | 1,963,095 | 640,721 | 24.6% |
| Tarrant | 2,135,743 | 1,781,222 | 354,521 | 16.6% |
| Bexar | 2,037,344 | 1,767,321 | 270,023 | 13.3% |
| Fort Bend | 859,721 | 602,105 | 257,616 | 30.0% |
| Collin | 1,116,601 | 864,587 | 252,014 | 22.6% |
| Hidalgo | 880,921 | 651,565 | 229,356 | 26.0% |
| Travis | 1,307,625 | 1,081,929 | 225,696 | 17.3% |
| El Paso | 866,275 | 665,969 | 200,306 | 23.1% |
| Denton | 945,644 | 787,089 | 158,555 | 16.8% |
| Montgomery | 654,722 | 558,523 | 96,199 | 14.7% |
| Cameron | 423,192 | 327,236 | 95,956 | 22.7% |
| Williamson | 643,889 | 548,035 | 95,854 | 14.9% |
| Webb | 267,731 | 199,891 | 67,840 | 25.3% |
| Brazoria | 381,650 | 327,309 | 54,341 | 14.2% |
| Galveston | 354,721 | 318,557 | 36,164 | 10.2% |
| Bell | 379,811 | 347,881 | 31,930 | 8.4% |
| Jefferson | 253,939 | 223,073 | 30,866 | 12.2% |
| Brazos | 237,980 | 208,120 | 29,860 | 12.5% |
| Nueces | 352,829 | 323,120 | 29,709 | 8.4% |
| Ector | 163,206 | 136,170 | 27,036 | 16.6% |
| Hays | 256,429 | 232,187 | 24,242 | 9.5% |
| Midland | 171,496 | 149,101 | 22,395 | 13.1% |
| McLennan | 263,608 | 241,330 | 22,278 | 8.5% |
| Smith | 238,014 | 217,516 | 20,498 | 8.6% |
| Lubbock | 314,633 | 295,808 | 18,825 | 6.0% |
| Starr | 65,809 | 47,723 | 18,086 | 27.5% |
| Maverick | 57,770 | 40,083 | 17,687 | 30.6% |
| Kaufman | 160,718 | 143,290 | 17,428 | 10.8% |
| Potter | 116,634 | 99,709 | 16,925 | 14.5% |
| Ellis | 203,927 | 187,082 | 16,845 | 8.3% |
| Bastrop | 102,370 | 88,484 | 13,886 | 13.6% |
| Liberty | 97,993 | 84,477 | 13,516 | 13.8% |
| Guadalupe | 178,368 | 165,681 | 12,687 | 7.1% |
| Johnson | 188,820 | 176,205 | 12,615 | 6.7% |
| Comal | 174,552 | 162,957 | 11,595 | 6.6% |
| Gregg | 124,860 | 114,036 | 10,824 | 8.7% |
| Rockwall | 116,931 | 106,762 | 10,169 | 8.7% |
| Grayson | 139,988 | 129,852 | 10,136 | 7.2% |
| Taylor | 144,259 | 134,288 | 9,971 | 6.9% |
| Val Verde | 47,647 | 38,602 | 9,045 | 19.0% |
| Parker | 158,079 | 149,926 | 8,153 | 5.2% |
| Wichita | 129,842 | 121,711 | 8,131 | 6.3% |
| Hunt | 104,917 | 96,987 | 7,930 | 7.6% |
| Randall | 143,791 | 136,337 | 7,454 | 5.2% |
| Waller | 59,455 | 52,234 | 7,221 | 12.1% |
| Angelina | 86,791 | 79,579 | 7,212 | 8.3% |
| Tom Green | 119,398 | 112,207 | 7,191 | 6.0% |
| Navarro | 53,735 | 46,803 | 6,932 | 12.9% |
| Victoria | 91,281 | 84,866 | 6,415 | 7.0% |
| Walker | 78,292 | 72,103 | 6,189 | 7.9% |
| Caldwell | 47,184 | 41,127 | 6,057 | 12.8% |
| Moore | 21,234 | 15,342 | 5,892 | 27.7% |
| Titus | 31,284 | 25,433 | 5,851 | 18.7% |
| Wise | 72,359 | 66,912 | 5,447 | 7.5% |
| Gaines | 21,904 | 16,586 | 5,318 | 24.3% |
| Nacogdoches | 64,897 | 59,595 | 5,302 | 8.2% |
| Coryell | 83,772 | 78,548 | 5,224 | 6.2% |
| Cherokee | 51,143 | 46,368 | 4,775 | 9.3% |
| Chambers | 49,178 | 44,674 | 4,504 | 9.2% |
| Atascosa | 50,058 | 45,765 | 4,293 | 8.6% |
| Henderson | 83,658 | 79,539 | 4,119 | 4.9% |
| San Patricio | 69,519 | 65,525 | 3,994 | 5.7% |
| Bowie | 92,321 | 88,422 | 3,899 | 4.2% |
| Burnet | 51,064 | 47,194 | 3,870 | 7.6% |
| Anderson | 57,825 | 54,055 | 3,770 | 6.5% |
| Kerr | 53,166 | 49,440 | 3,726 | 7.0% |
| Matagorda | 36,274 | 32,672 | 3,602 | 9.9% |
| Hopkins | 37,351 | 33,854 | 3,497 | 9.4% |
| Howard | 33,127 | 29,632 | 3,495 | 10.6% |
| Wharton | 41,651 | 38,161 | 3,490 | 8.4% |
| Kendall | 46,971 | 43,511 | 3,460 | 7.4% |
| Rusk | 52,613 | 49,242 | 3,371 | 6.4% |
| Frio | 18,019 | 14,661 | 3,358 | 18.6% |
| Hale | 32,247 | 28,900 | 3,347 | 10.4% |
| Erath | 43,244 | 39,959 | 3,285 | 7.6% |
| Austin | 30,712 | 27,450 | 3,262 | 10.6% |
| Harrison | 69,584 | 66,356 | 3,228 | 4.6% |
| Medina | 52,419 | 49,224 | 3,195 | 6.1% |
| Deaf Smith | 18,487 | 15,296 | 3,191 | 17.3% |
| Zapata | 13,855 | 10,683 | 3,172 | 22.9% |
| Ochiltree | 9,852 | 6,864 | 2,988 | 30.3% |
| Cooke | 42,473 | 39,579 | 2,894 | 6.8% |
| Orange | 84,993 | 82,223 | 2,770 | 3.3% |
| Andrews | 18,518 | 15,829 | 2,689 | 14.5% |
| San Jacinto | 27,983 | 25,449 | 2,534 | 9.1% |
| Willacy | 20,218 | 17,684 | 2,534 | 12.5% |
| Reeves | 13,219 | 10,695 | 2,524 | 19.1% |
| Uvalde | 24,810 | 22,311 | 2,499 | 10.1% |
| Hood | 64,198 | 61,710 | 2,488 | 3.9% |
| Van Zandt | 61,323 | 58,888 | 2,435 | 4.0% |
| Polk | 51,780 | 49,376 | 2,404 | 4.6% |
| Washington | 36,156 | 33,765 | 2,391 | 6.6% |
| Wilson | 51,501 | 49,111 | 2,390 | 4.6% |
| Hill | 36,664 | 34,318 | 2,346 | 6.4% |
| Parmer | 9,752 | 7,450 | 2,302 | 23.6% |
| Lamar | 50,421 | 48,204 | 2,217 | 4.4% |
| Gonzales | 19,764 | 17,564 | 2,200 | 11.1% |
| Grimes | 30,385 | 28,235 | 2,150 | 7.1% |
| Gray | 21,131 | 19,085 | 2,046 | 9.7% |
| Pecos | 14,983 | 12,958 | 2,025 | 13.5% |
| Limestone | 22,185 | 20,169 | 2,016 | 9.1% |
| Calhoun | 19,921 | 17,908 | 2,013 | 10.1% |
| Kleberg | 30,629 | 28,680 | 1,949 | 6.4% |
| Dallam | 7,180 | 5,313 | 1,867 | 26.0% |
| Gillespie | 27,202 | 25,363 | 1,839 | 6.8% |
| Wood | 46,094 | 44,274 | 1,820 | 3.9% |
| Fayette | 24,783 | 22,981 | 1,802 | 7.3% |
| Jim Wells | 38,863 | 37,061 | 1,802 | 4.6% |
| Shelby | 24,108 | 22,332 | 1,776 | 7.4% |
| Colorado | 20,736 | 18,997 | 1,739 | 8.4% |
| Yoakum | 7,589 | 5,865 | 1,724 | 22.7% |
| Presidio | 6,043 | 4,349 | 1,694 | 28.0% |
| Fannin | 36,525 | 34,844 | 1,681 | 4.6% |
| Palo Pinto | 28,920 | 27,318 | 1,602 | 5.5% |
| Hockley | 21,455 | 19,869 | 1,586 | 7.4% |
| Milam | 25,268 | 23,747 | 1,521 | 6.0% |
| Lamb | 12,919 | 11,418 | 1,501 | 11.6% |
| Brown | 38,294 | 36,816 | 1,478 | 3.9% |
| Upshur | 41,864 | 40,408 | 1,456 | 3.5% |
| Lee | 17,758 | 16,409 | 1,349 | 7.6% |
| Camp | 12,652 | 11,306 | 1,346 | 10.6% |
| Bee | 31,000 | 29,673 | 1,327 | 4.3% |
| Lampasas | 22,267 | 20,981 | 1,286 | 5.8% |
| Hardin | 57,126 | 55,889 | 1,237 | 2.2% |
| Castro | 7,328 | 6,100 | 1,228 | 16.8% |
| Comanche | 13,786 | 12,562 | 1,224 | 8.9% |
| Lavaca | 20,479 | 19,261 | 1,218 | 5.9% |
| Madison | 13,574 | 12,408 | 1,166 | 8.6% |
| Bosque | 18,546 | 17,382 | 1,164 | 6.3% |
| Young | 17,963 | 16,805 | 1,158 | 6.4% |
| Winkler | 7,540 | 6,402 | 1,138 | 15.1% |
| Bandera | 21,589 | 20,456 | 1,133 | 5.2% |
| Bailey | 7,044 | 5,923 | 1,121 | 15.9% |
| Burleson | 18,327 | 17,215 | 1,112 | 6.1% |
| Crane | 4,623 | 3,530 | 1,093 | 23.6% |
| Karnes | 14,819 | 13,771 | 1,048 | 7.1% |
| Hutchinson | 20,413 | 19,375 | 1,038 | 5.1% |
| Terry | 11,699 | 10,670 | 1,029 | 8.8% |
| Panola | 22,624 | 21,657 | 967 | 4.3% |
| Llano | 22,011 | 21,045 | 966 | 4.4% |
| Robertson | 16,973 | 16,011 | 962 | 5.7% |
| Hudspeth | 3,331 | 2,377 | 954 | 28.6% |
| Freestone | 19,813 | 18,865 | 948 | 4.8% |
| Falls | 17,063 | 16,116 | 947 | 5.6% |
| Jackson | 15,081 | 14,157 | 924 | 6.1% |
| Garza | 5,435 | 4,534 | 901 | 16.6% |
| Eastland | 17,846 | 16,954 | 892 | 5.0% |
| Leon | 16,067 | 15,191 | 876 | 5.5% |
| Live Oak | 11,444 | 10,569 | 875 | 7.6% |
| Ward | 11,255 | 10,381 | 874 | 7.8% |
| Dimmit | 8,507 | 7,651 | 856 | 10.1% |
| Hansford | 5,182 | 4,351 | 831 | 16.0% |
| Somervell | 9,510 | 8,685 | 825 | 8.7% |
| Houston | 22,042 | 21,238 | 804 | 3.6% |
| Brewster | 9,464 | 8,684 | 780 | 8.2% |
| Scurry | 16,633 | 15,856 | 777 | 4.7% |
| Jasper | 32,807 | 32,037 | 770 | 2.3% |
| Dawson | 12,311 | 11,548 | 763 | 6.2% |
| Franklin | 10,522 | 9,762 | 760 | 7.2% |
| Cass | 28,582 | 27,829 | 753 | 2.6% |
| Aransas | 24,449 | 23,711 | 738 | 3.0% |
| Morris | 12,014 | 11,280 | 734 | 6.1% |
| Stephens | 9,278 | 8,550 | 728 | 7.8% |
| Wilbarger | 12,712 | 12,015 | 697 | 5.5% |
| Jones | 19,968 | 19,285 | 683 | 3.4% |
| Montague | 20,599 | 19,926 | 673 | 3.3% |
| Swisher | 6,981 | 6,313 | 668 | 9.6% |
| Blanco | 12,008 | 11,399 | 609 | 5.1% |
| Tyler | 20,084 | 19,483 | 601 | 3.0% |
| Nolan | 14,565 | 13,965 | 600 | 4.1% |
| Floyd | 5,294 | 4,722 | 572 | 10.8% |
| Zavala | 9,532 | 8,964 | 568 | 6.0% |
| Brooks | 6,987 | 6,429 | 558 | 8.0% |
| San Saba | 5,802 | 5,270 | 532 | 9.2% |
| Hartley | 5,307 | 4,778 | 529 | 10.0% |
| Sherman | 2,434 | 1,914 | 520 | 21.4% |
| DeWitt | 19,853 | 19,334 | 519 | 2.6% |
| Martin | 5,230 | 4,720 | 510 | 9.8% |
| Hemphill | 3,311 | 2,814 | 497 | 15.0% |
| Hamilton | 8,320 | 7,852 | 468 | 5.6% |
| Lipscomb | 2,964 | 2,515 | 449 | 15.1% |
| Jack | 8,623 | 8,178 | 445 | 5.2% |
| Trinity | 13,850 | 13,411 | 439 | 3.2% |
| Wheeler | 4,902 | 4,476 | 426 | 8.7% |
| La Salle | 6,946 | 6,521 | 425 | 6.1% |
| Coleman | 7,765 | 7,352 | 413 | 5.3% |
| Runnels | 9,880 | 9,467 | 413 | 4.2% |
| McCulloch | 7,565 | 7,161 | 404 | 5.3% |
| Concho | 3,301 | 2,899 | 402 | 12.2% |
| Cochran | 2,520 | 2,130 | 390 | 15.5% |
| Archer | 8,734 | 8,345 | 389 | 4.5% |
| Kinney | 3,140 | 2,752 | 388 | 12.4% |
| San Augustine | 7,889 | 7,506 | 383 | 4.9% |
| Sutton | 3,306 | 2,927 | 379 | 11.5% |
| Crockett | 2,881 | 2,525 | 356 | 12.4% |
| Reagan | 3,259 | 2,912 | 347 | 10.6% |
| Rains | 12,505 | 12,171 | 334 | 2.7% |
| Red River | 11,621 | 11,291 | 330 | 2.8% |
| Goliad | 7,096 | 6,767 | 329 | 4.6% |
| Haskell | 5,390 | 5,066 | 324 | 6.0% |
| Kimble | 4,355 | 4,051 | 304 | 7.0% |
| Mitchell | 8,989 | 8,687 | 302 | 3.4% |
| Hardeman | 3,529 | 3,253 | 276 | 7.8% |
| Crosby | 5,072 | 4,798 | 274 | 5.4% |
| Hall | 2,827 | 2,553 | 274 | 9.7% |
| Childress | 6,772 | 6,505 | 267 | 3.9% |
| Knox | 3,322 | 3,065 | 257 | 7.7% |
| Upton | 3,227 | 2,981 | 246 | 7.6% |
| Schleicher | 2,426 | 2,182 | 244 | 10.1% |
| Jeff Davis | 1,740 | 1,518 | 222 | 12.8% |
| Lynn | 5,667 | 5,449 | 218 | 3.8% |
| Marion | 9,631 | 9,414 | 217 | 2.3% |
| Culberson | 2,181 | 1,975 | 206 | 9.4% |
| Clay | 10,402 | 10,217 | 185 | 1.8% |
| Newton | 12,193 | 12,015 | 178 | 1.5% |
| Mills | 4,499 | 4,327 | 172 | 3.8% |
| Donley | 3,276 | 3,114 | 162 | 4.9% |
| Refugio | 6,693 | 6,541 | 152 | 2.3% |
| Mason | 3,951 | 3,802 | 149 | 3.8% |
| Callahan | 14,017 | 13,872 | 145 | 1.0% |
| Fisher | 3,661 | 3,518 | 143 | 3.9% |
| Oldham | 2,097 | 1,955 | 142 | 6.8% |
| Sterling | 1,389 | 1,257 | 132 | 9.5% |
| Collingsworth | 2,733 | 2,613 | 120 | 4.4% |
| Edwards | 1,392 | 1,273 | 119 | 8.5% |
| Duval | 9,824 | 9,708 | 116 | 1.2% |
| Carson | 5,802 | 5,687 | 115 | 2.0% |
| Baylor | 3,464 | 3,357 | 107 | 3.1% |
| Glasscock | 1,070 | 963 | 107 | 10.0% |
| Briscoe | 1,223 | 1,121 | 102 | 8.3% |
| Coke | 3,315 | 3,216 | 99 | 3.0% |
| Menard | 1,964 | 1,872 | 92 | 4.7% |
| Sabine | 9,998 | 9,906 | 92 | 0.9% |
| Real | 2,821 | 2,731 | 90 | 3.2% |
| Jim Hogg | 4,797 | 4,728 | 69 | 1.4% |
| Armstrong | 1,883 | 1,815 | 68 | 3.6% |
| Dickens | 1,641 | 1,574 | 67 | 4.1% |
| Delta | 5,345 | 5,281 | 64 | 1.2% |
| Irion | 1,432 | 1,376 | 56 | 3.9% |
| Throckmorton | 1,589 | 1,542 | 47 | 3.0% |
| Shackelford | 3,169 | 3,136 | 33 | 1.0% |
| King | 189 | 163 | 26 | 13.8% |
| Stonewall | 1,244 | 1,221 | 23 | 1.8% |
| McMullen | 623 | 601 | 22 | 3.5% |
| Kenedy | 52 | 32 | 20 | 38.5% |
| Motley | 1,267 | 1,249 | 18 | 1.4% |
| Terrell | 851 | 834 | 17 | 2.0% |
| Borden | 723 | 708 | 15 | 2.1% |
| Foard | 1,079 | 1,068 | 11 | 1.0% |
| Loving | 54 | 49 | 5 | 9.3% |
| Kent | 727 | 725 | 2 | 0.3% |
| Cottle | 1,302 | 1,302 | 0 | 0.0% |
| Roberts | 785 | 785 | 0 | 0.0% |