Texas Counties Ranked by Property Records

Texas is divided into 254 counties in the October 2026 edition of the county index, more than any other state. Together they hold 11,713,651 property records, 8.9% of the national total, which places Texas 1st among the states and the District of Columbia by record count.

Those records are not evenly divided. The largest file, Harris County, holds 1,496,552 records, 12.8% of the state total. The five largest counties together hold 35.2%. Ranked from the top, it takes 11 counties to reach half of the state’s records, which leaves the other 243 with the remaining half. The state’s full alphabetical list is on the Texas county index.

Texas counties

254

Property records

11,713,651

Share held by the top 5

35.2%

Median county file

10,518

The 20 largest files

Table 1 ranks the largest 20 Texas counties by record count, with each county’s share of the state total and the running share as you read down. Between them these counties hold 64.5% of the state’s records; the other 234 counties hold 35.5%.

Concentration at the top

The five largest counties, Harris County, Dallas County, Tarrant County, Bexar County and Travis County, account for 4,123,845 records. The ten largest hold 49.8% of the state total. Harris County alone has 142 times as many records as the median Texas county, which holds 10,518.

The gap between the average and the median makes the same point. The average Texas county file has 46,117 records, while the median has 10,518. The average sits above the median because a small number of very large files pull it upward; most counties are smaller than the average suggests.

Against the country as a whole, the median Texas county file of 10,518 records compares with 13,414 for the median county nationwide, so a typical Texas county file is smaller than a typical U.S. county file. At the very top, Harris County holds 1.9 times as many records as the second-largest file, Dallas County.

Beyond the top 20

The 234 counties outside Table 1 make up 92.1% of the state’s counties and hold 4,162,370 records, 35.5% of the total. The largest of them, Smith County, ranks 21st with 107,770 records; the median file among them holds 9,037. This is the part of the state where buying by the county matters most: each of these counties is its own file, and a buyer can take the handful that match a territory without paying for the rest.

File sizes across the state

Grouping counties into bands by the size of their files gives a picture of the whole state at once. The most common band is 5K–20K, with 88 counties. 24 counties have 100,000 records or more, holding 68.1% of the state total, while 80 counties have fewer than 5,000 records and hold 1.7% between them.

Table 2 adds the record totals for each band. The band with the most counties is not the band with the most records: that is 100K–500K, with 20 counties holding 36.7% of the state total. Read side by side, the two columns show how few files carry most of the state’s property and how many carry the rest.

The 10 smallest files

At the other end, the smallest Texas file is Loving County, with 91 records. The 10 smallest counties together hold 3,806 records, 0.03% of the state total; Harris County on its own has 393 times as many. Table 3 lists them from smallest up, with each county’s rank among all 254.

A small file reflects a county with few properties on record, and it has practical advantages. A short file can be read in full, mailed in full and checked against each new monthly edition without much effort, and it costs the same per month as the largest file in the state.

How this report is built

Every Texas entry in the county index is included, identified by its FIPS code and ranked by record count, with ties ordered alphabetically. Shares are of the Texas total, not the national one. The bands in Table 2 are fixed record-count ranges chosen for this report, so a county moves between bands only when its own count crosses a boundary. All figures are from the October 2026 edition and are recalculated daily from the county index, so the rankings follow each monthly edition.

Every Texas county

The complete ranking, all 254 counties from largest to smallest, is below. Each name links to the county’s page with its FIPS code, its rank in the state, its nearest neighbours and the columns in its file.

Buying Texas by the county

Every county costs the same $19/mo, so the price per file is identical at both ends of this ranking. The five-county bundle, $49/mo for any 5, could cover the 5 largest Texas counties, 35.2% of the state’s records, or a cluster of neighbouring counties around a smaller market. Each county page lists the nearest counties in the state to help build that cluster. At the other end of the ranking, the five smallest Texas files hold 1,384 records between them. For how Texas compares with every other state, see property records by state.

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