Is Stephens County, TX's population growing or shrinking?
Refreshed annually
It shrank by 34 between 2024 and 2025. Changes in population reflect birth and death rates, immigration patterns, regional shifts, and even the overall health of the economy. Stephens County, TX’s 0.36% annual decrease was primarily driven by emigration from the state.
In the decade between 2015 and 2025, Stephens County, TX’s population grew by 0.02%.
-34
population change (2024 to 2025)
-0.36%
percent change in population (2024 to 2025)
Since 2000, Stephens County, TX’s population increased 13 out of 25 years. The largest increase occurred between 2020 and 2021, when Stephens County, TX gained 342 residents. Its largest decline occurred between 2019 and 2020 when there were 269 fewer residents.
Stephens County, TX lost 34 residents between 2024 and 2025.
Annual population change, 2001–2025
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What contributes to population change in Stephens County, TX?
A county’s population is influenced by three factors:
- Natural population change: If births outnumber deaths in a given year, natural population growth is positive. If deaths exceed births, it is negative. Between 2024 and 2025 natural population change was negative in Stephens County, TX, with deaths exceeding births by 11.
- Immigration: international migration directly into or out of a county: If more people move in than move out, population change from immigration is positive. If more people move out than move in, it’s negative. Between 2024 to 2025, Stephens County, TX’s population change from immigration was negative with about 15 more people leaving for another country directly from Stephens County, TX than coming.
- Domestic migration, moving between counties: Between 2024 to 2025, Stephens County, TX’s population change from domestic migration was negative with about eight more people moving to any other county in the US.
Between 2024 and 2025, immigration was the primary driver of population decline in Stephens County, TX.
Components of population change from previous year, 2011–2025
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