{"id":309803,"date":"2026-05-26T22:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309803\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:31:46","slug":"how-many-people-live-in-lubbock-county-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/309803\/","title":{"rendered":"How many people live in Lubbock County, TX?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, there were about 327,400 people living in Lubbock County, TX. That makes Lubbock County the 18th-most populous county in Texas. It is home to 1% of people living in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-nowrap display-0\">327K<\/p>\n<p>population of Lubbock County, TX (2024)<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-nowrap display-0\">1%<\/p>\n<p>County share of the Texas population (2024)<\/p>\n<p>About 327,400 people lived in Lubbock County, TX in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Population estimates, 2000\u20132024<\/p>\n<p>What are Lubbock County, TX\u2019s age demographics?<\/p>\n<p>About 44,700 Lubbock County residents are aged 65 and older in 2024. That represents 13.7% of its population. For comparison, the age group represents 14% of Texas&#8217;s population and 18% in the US overall.<\/p>\n<p>Another 76,300 Lubbock County residents, or 23.3% of the population, were children under 18. For comparison, the age group represents 24.6% of Texas\u2019s population and 21.6% in the US overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"flex-1 gap-base-M text-left text-secondary-on-white transition-colors body-bold-lg md:inline-flex md:hover:text-text-highlight\">Subscribe for weekly, data-driven insights. No spin, just the facts. <\/p>\n<p>A higher share of Lubbock County, TX&#8217;s population is aged 18\u201324 than the US as a whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Population estimates by age group, (2024)<\/p>\n<p>What are Lubbock County, TX\u2019s racial and ethnic demographics?<\/p>\n<p>Hispanic residents make up 37.1% of the Lubbock County, TX population, higher than the national share of 20%.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Lubbock County\u2019s non-Hispanic white population accounts for 51%, below the 57.5% nationwide, and the non-Hispanic Black or African American population makes up 7.3% of the county, compared with 12.6% nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Racial and ethnic make up differ based on location. These figures reflect how people identified their race alone (not in combination with other races), and separate out Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, following Census reporting standards.<\/p>\n<p>Lubbock County, TX has a higher share of a non-Hispanic white population than Texas as a whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-md\">Population estimates by race and ethnicity, (2024)<\/p>\n<p>The largest city or town in Lubbock County, TX is Lubbock with about 272,100 residents in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Cities and towns in Lubbock County, TX ranked by population<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-L text-secondary body-lg\">Population (2024), includes only portions within county<\/p>\n<p>Cities and towns in Lubbock County, TX ranked by populationCity or townPopulation1. 272,0862. 7,9823. 5,6984. 2,9725. 2,1176. 1,1807. 7488. 6919. 44910. <\/p>\n<p class=\"w-fit hyphens-manual break-words\">Balance of Lubbock\u00a0County<\/p>\n<p>33,471Keep exploring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, there were about 327,400 people living in Lubbock County, TX. That makes Lubbock County the 18th-most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-309803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}