Name: People in group quarters by Texas county
Creator: U.S. Census Bureau
Published: 2026-10-07T01:00:00+08:00
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Summary

Group-quarters share, Texas counties

Group quarters share by Texas county · all 254 counties · hover or tap a county for every figure on this page

CountiesJones County

Summary

Every Texas county, shaded by the share of residents living in group quarters. Darker is a higher share, so large counties do not wash out small ones. County borders are the U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary (cb_500k).

Texas has 605,817 people living in group quarters, 2.0% of everyone in the state, counting dorms, nursing facilities, correctional facilities and the other group quarters the Census publishes. A typical county looks quieter: the middle county puts 1.7% of its residents in group quarters, with a count of 441. Jones County is highest at 30.1%, and Harris County has the most people, 45,471. Sixty-two counties sit at 5.0 percent or more, thirty at 10.0 percent or more, and 11 counties publish zero. Ten counties hold 41 percent of every Texan in group quarters, so a county share is not a state figure.

605,817Texans in group quartersseparate state:48 ACS request

2.0%of all Texansstate population from table B01003

1.7%typical county sharethe middle county, not the state

30.1%Jones Countyhighest group-quarters share

62counties at 5% or moreshares rounded to one decimal first

Figure 1

Group quarters population, all 254 counties

Group quarters population · all 254 · ranked high to low

Summary

The complete ranking by count. Harris County has 45,471 people in group quarters, the most of any Texas county. The ten largest counties hold 41 percent of the statewide total. The middle county has 441. 11 counties publish zero: Borden, Briscoe, Glasscock, Irion, King, Loving, McMullen, Motley, Roberts, Terrell, Throckmorton.

Table 1

All counties

254 rows · 4 columns · sorted by group quarters population, high to low

Summary

The full dataset: all 254 counties with group-quarters population (B26001), total population (B01003, imported to compute the share) and the group-quarters share, sorted by count and re-sortable on any column. Use the filter box to jump to a county by name. A county share is that county's group-quarters count divided by that county's total. It is not a state figure, and the 254 shares cannot be averaged into one.

All counties
	?	?	?
Harris	45,471	4,758,579	1.0%
Bexar	35,365	2,037,344	1.7%
Dallas	30,986	2,603,816	1.2%
Tarrant	27,986	2,135,743	1.3%
Travis	27,446	1,307,625	2.1%
Brazos	18,021	237,980	7.6%
Walker	16,565	78,292	21.2%
Coryell	16,190	83,772	19.3%
Jefferson	15,094	253,939	5.9%
El Paso	13,599	866,275	1.6%
Lubbock	12,935	314,633	4.1%
Brazoria	12,768	381,650	3.3%
Denton	11,665	945,644	1.2%
Wichita	11,522	129,842	8.9%
Anderson	11,161	57,825	19.3%
Bell	9,883	379,811	2.6%
McLennan	9,301	263,608	3.5%
Nueces	8,460	352,829	2.4%
Hidalgo	8,078	880,921	0.9%
Hays	7,763	256,429	3.0%
Bee	7,002	31,000	22.6%
Collin	6,984	1,116,601	0.6%
Taylor	6,823	144,259	4.7%
Potter	6,602	116,634	5.7%
Smith	6,442	238,014	2.7%
Jones	6,020	19,968	30.1%
Fort Bend	5,913	859,721	0.7%
Bowie	5,755	92,321	6.2%
Galveston	5,692	354,721	1.6%
Liberty	5,493	97,993	5.6%
Tom Green	5,358	119,398	4.5%
Rusk	5,155	52,613	9.8%
Nacogdoches	4,951	64,897	7.6%
Waller	4,781	59,455	8.0%
Gregg	4,473	124,860	3.6%
Williamson	4,365	643,889	0.7%
Polk	3,636	51,780	7.0%
Howard	3,634	33,127	11.0%
Frio	3,512	18,019	19.5%
Karnes	3,482	14,819	23.5%
Grimes	3,465	30,385	11.4%
Caldwell	3,420	47,184	7.2%
Cherokee	3,256	51,143	6.4%
Hunt	3,208	104,917	3.1%
Angelina	3,195	86,791	3.7%
Cameron	3,088	423,192	0.7%
Fannin	3,086	36,525	8.4%
Erath	3,083	43,244	7.1%
Montgomery	2,954	654,722	0.5%
Johnson	2,899	188,820	1.5%
Houston	2,810	22,042	12.7%
Webb	2,795	267,731	1.0%
Bastrop	2,778	102,370	2.7%
Randall	2,723	143,791	1.9%
Grayson	2,448	139,988	1.7%
Washington	2,397	36,156	6.6%
Medina	2,355	52,419	4.5%
Pecos	2,285	14,983	15.3%
Madison	2,262	13,574	16.7%
Tyler	2,132	20,084	10.6%
Kerr	2,098	53,166	3.9%
Hale	2,089	32,247	6.5%
Ector	1,973	163,206	1.2%
Falls	1,926	17,063	11.3%
Guadalupe	1,915	178,368	1.1%
Ellis	1,909	203,927	0.9%
Scurry	1,905	16,633	11.5%
DeWitt	1,858	19,853	9.4%
Val Verde	1,849	47,647	3.9%
Midland	1,841	171,496	1.1%
Dawson	1,810	12,311	14.7%
Harrison	1,774	69,584	2.5%
Brown	1,754	38,294	4.6%
Kleberg	1,727	30,629	5.6%
Parker	1,692	158,079	1.1%
Wood	1,674	46,094	3.6%
Gray	1,664	21,131	7.9%
Live Oak	1,567	11,444	13.7%
Freestone	1,436	19,813	7.2%
Mitchell	1,432	8,989	15.9%
Willacy	1,430	20,218	7.1%
Kaufman	1,420	160,718	0.9%
Hartley	1,418	5,307	26.7%
Childress	1,390	6,772	20.5%
Henderson	1,379	83,658	1.6%
Comal	1,353	174,552	0.8%
Victoria	1,340	91,281	1.5%
Garza	1,274	5,435	23.4%
Navarro	1,261	53,735	2.3%
Jasper	1,079	32,807	3.3%
Reeves	1,050	13,219	7.9%
La Salle	1,033	6,946	14.9%
Wise	1,033	72,359	1.4%
Jack	1,030	8,623	11.9%
Eastland	953	17,846	5.3%
Burnet	909	51,064	1.8%
Limestone	881	22,185	4.0%
Hood	878	64,198	1.4%
Concho	875	3,301	26.5%
Hill	837	36,664	2.3%
Wilbarger	835	12,712	6.6%
Uvalde	784	24,810	3.2%
Terry	753	11,699	6.4%
Lamar	732	50,421	1.5%
Hudspeth	721	3,331	21.6%
Orange	696	84,993	0.8%
Wharton	694	41,651	1.7%
Rockwall	693	116,931	0.6%
San Patricio	684	69,519	1.0%
Swisher	663	6,981	9.5%
San Saba	628	5,802	10.8%
Kendall	620	46,971	1.3%
Cooke	611	42,473	1.4%
Van Zandt	602	61,323	1.0%
Duval	588	9,824	6.0%
Starr	557	65,809	0.8%
Hockley	556	21,455	2.6%
Hopkins	515	37,351	1.4%
Atascosa	498	50,058	1.0%
Milam	497	25,268	2.0%
Upshur	492	41,864	1.2%
Panola	474	22,624	2.1%
Fayette	471	24,783	1.9%
Stephens	471	9,278	5.1%
Hardin	467	57,126	0.8%
Wilson	456	51,501	0.9%
Lee	444	17,758	2.5%
Bandera	438	21,589	2.0%
Brooks	431	6,987	6.2%
Lavaca	426	20,479	2.1%
Oldham	419	2,097	20.0%
Colorado	389	20,736	1.9%
Jim Wells	386	38,863	1.0%
Donley	382	3,276	11.7%
Maverick	378	57,770	0.7%
Brewster	373	9,464	3.9%
Somervell	372	9,510	3.9%
Cass	361	28,582	1.3%
Matagorda	356	36,274	1.0%
Gillespie	352	27,202	1.3%
Nolan	345	14,565	2.4%
Montague	343	20,599	1.7%
Gonzales	330	19,764	1.7%
Bosque	329	18,546	1.8%
Calhoun	324	19,921	1.6%
Kinney	316	3,140	10.1%
Aransas	298	24,449	1.2%
Austin	291	30,712	0.9%
Palo Pinto	282	28,920	1.0%
Haskell	273	5,390	5.1%
Hamilton	269	8,320	3.2%
Young	263	17,963	1.5%
Chambers	248	49,178	0.5%
Lampasas	246	22,267	1.1%
Burleson	245	18,327	1.3%
San Augustine	239	7,889	3.0%
Titus	238	31,284	0.8%
Hutchinson	235	20,413	1.2%
Llano	219	22,011	1.0%
Jackson	206	15,081	1.4%
Deaf Smith	205	18,487	1.1%
Runnels	204	9,880	2.1%
Robertson	201	16,973	1.2%
Zapata	194	13,855	1.4%
Lamb	193	12,919	1.5%
Cochran	183	2,520	7.3%
Red River	180	11,621	1.5%
Gaines	176	21,904	0.8%
Comanche	171	13,786	1.2%
Bailey	167	7,044	2.4%
Shelby	167	24,108	0.7%
Newton	158	12,193	1.3%
Mills	157	4,499	3.5%
Moore	155	21,234	0.7%
Dimmit	153	8,507	1.8%
Refugio	151	6,693	2.3%
Andrews	144	18,518	0.8%
Trinity	144	13,850	1.0%
San Jacinto	139	27,983	0.5%
Blanco	126	12,008	1.0%
McCulloch	126	7,565	1.7%
Morris	126	12,014	1.0%
Knox	123	3,322	3.7%
Crane	121	4,623	2.6%
Ward	120	11,255	1.1%
Coke	116	3,315	3.5%
Sabine	114	9,998	1.1%
Marion	109	9,631	1.1%
Goliad	107	7,096	1.5%
Real	107	2,821	3.8%
Franklin	97	10,522	0.9%
Crosby	92	5,072	1.8%
Winkler	90	7,540	1.2%
Castro	89	7,328	1.2%
Callahan	88	14,017	0.6%
Clay	87	10,402	0.8%
Parmer	84	9,752	0.9%
Wheeler	84	4,902	1.7%
Leon	79	16,067	0.5%
Camp	74	12,652	0.6%
Baylor	73	3,464	2.1%
Hansford	73	5,182	1.4%
Ochiltree	71	9,852	0.7%
Carson	70	5,802	1.2%
Upton	69	3,227	2.1%
Archer	66	8,734	0.8%
Hall	63	2,827	2.2%
Kent	63	727	8.7%
Lynn	63	5,667	1.1%
Rains	63	12,505	0.5%
Collingsworth	61	2,733	2.2%
Zavala	61	9,532	0.6%
Coleman	59	7,765	0.8%
Dickens	59	1,641	3.6%
Jim Hogg	57	4,797	1.2%
Martin	57	5,230	1.1%
Crockett	56	2,881	1.9%
Delta	56	5,345	1.0%
Armstrong	54	1,883	2.9%
Lipscomb	51	2,964	1.7%
Hemphill	50	3,311	1.5%
Yoakum	46	7,589	0.6%
Menard	44	1,964	2.2%
Shackelford	43	3,169	1.4%
Fisher	42	3,661	1.1%
Foard	40	1,079	3.7%
Dallam	38	7,180	0.5%
Stonewall	38	1,244	3.1%
Culberson	37	2,181	1.7%
Kimble	37	4,355	0.8%
Edwards	36	1,392	2.6%
Sherman	34	2,434	1.4%
Sterling	34	1,389	2.4%
Hardeman	32	3,529	0.9%
Floyd	27	5,294	0.5%
Jeff Davis	26	1,740	1.5%
Sutton	21	3,306	0.6%
Reagan	15	3,259	0.5%
Schleicher	15	2,426	0.6%
Mason	9	3,951	0.2%
Kenedy	6	52	11.5%
Cottle	5	1,302	0.4%
Presidio	5	6,043	0.1%
Borden	0	723	0.0%
Briscoe	0	1,223	0.0%
Glasscock	0	1,070	0.0%
Irion	0	1,432	0.0%
King	0	189	0.0%
Loving	0	54	0.0%
McMullen	0	623	0.0%
Motley	0	1,267	0.0%
Roberts	0	785	0.0%
Terrell	0	851	0.0%
Throckmorton	0	1,589	0.0%

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Group-quarters share, Texas counties

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About this data

Group quarters are places where people live or stay in a group living arrangement, including college dorms, nursing facilities, correctional facilities, and other institutional and noninstitutional group quarters the Census publishes in table B26001.
The group-quarters share uses total population from table B01003, imported separately from the group-quarters count in B26001. Share is that county's group-quarters population divided by that county's total population.
A county share is not a state figure. The statewide 2.0% comes from a separate Census request for Texas (state:48), not from averaging the 254 county rates.
11 counties publish a group-quarters count of zero (Borden, Briscoe, Glasscock, Irion, King, Loving, McMullen, Motley, Roberts, Terrell, Throckmorton). Those are published zeros, not suppressed values. No Texas county was suppressed on these tables for 2023 ACS 5-year.

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Group-quarters share, Texas counties

Group quarters population, all 254 counties

Group-quarters share, all 254 counties

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