Hunt County, Texas

Hunt County is a county in Texas, United States, about 50 miles northeast of
Dallas. It had a population of 99,956 at the 2020 census, an estimated 123,336 by 2025, and
covers 882 square miles (2,280 km2) centred near 33°07′N 96°05′W.

Greenville is the county seat and the county’s largest city; its postal code is 75401. The
county holds 13 cities, 2 towns and 8 unincorporated communities, and it runs on Central Time.
Its FIPS code is 48231.

Towns & Villages in Hunt County

Hunt County has 23 named places on record: 13 incorporated cities, 2 incorporated towns and 8
unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. Unincorp. covers crossroads
and rural communities with no formal boundary; Texas has no civil townships, so the county runs
directly on commissioners’ precincts instead.

Three places on this list sit on county lines. Royse City is chiefly a Rockwall County city,
with only its eastern edge reaching into Hunt; its 13,508 residents are counted mostly outside
Hunt County. Josephine straddles Hunt and Collin counties, and Poetry straddles Hunt and Kaufman
counties — both towns’ population figures above are citywide, not Hunt-only. Farmersville,
sometimes listed against Hunt County, is a Collin County city; the previous version of this page
wrongly carried it and a run of unverifiable hamlet names (Aberfoyle, Boles Home, Chalmers, and
similar) with no traceable source, all dropped here.

ZIP Codes

• 75401 — Greenville (the county seat’s main code, covers 75401–75404 citywide)
• 75189 — Royse City and Union Valley
• 75428 — Commerce, home to East Texas A&M University
• 75173 — Josephine
• 75474 — Quinlan, West Tawakoni and Hawk Cove, on Lake Tawakoni’s west shore
• 75135 — Caddo Mills
• 75496 — Wolfe City
• 75423 — Celeste
• 75453 — Lone Oak
• 75422 — Campbell
• 75424 — Cash, delivered from a Greenville post office
• 75458 — Merit

Poetry, Neylandville, Fairlie, Floyd, Jacobia, Kingston, Mexico and South Sulphur have no ZIP
code of their own; mail to these places is delivered under the nearest incorporated town’s code.

Geography

Hunt County sits in the Blackland Prairie of Northeast Texas, a belt of dark, heavy clay soil
that once made the county one of the country’s leading cotton producers. Of its 882 square
miles, 840 are land and 42 are water, about 4.7 percent, most of it Lake Tawakoni, which forms
much of the county’s southeastern edge and supplies drinking water to Dallas. The South Sulphur
River crosses the county’s northern half, feeding Lake Tawakoni from the north.

Fannin County lies to the north, Delta County to the northeast, Hopkins County to the east,
Rains County and Van Zandt County to the southeast, Kaufman County to the south, Rockwall County
to the southwest, and Collin County to the west. Fannin County,
Delta County,
Hopkins County,
Rains County,
Van Zandt County,
Kaufman County,
Rockwall County and
Collin County all border Hunt directly.

Demographics

Hunt County had a population of 99,956 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate puts the
county near 123,336 residents by 2025 — among the fastest-growing counties in the Dallas-Fort
Worth region. Greenville and Royse City are by far the two largest communities. Median household
income runs $71,938 (2024), lower than Texas’s statewide figure of $75,780 (2023 ACS). About
38.7 percent of residents live in urban places, with the remaining 61.3 percent rural, and the
median age is 37.7 years.

Economy & Local Life

Manufacturing employs the most workers in the county, about 5,719 people, followed closely by
retail trade at 5,714 and health care and social assistance at 5,561. L3Harris Technologies, an
aerospace and defense manufacturer, is the county’s largest single employer with roughly 6,400
workers at its Greenville plant. East Texas A&M University in Commerce, with more than 12,000
students, is the county’s other major institution and its host city’s largest employer alongside
it. Hunt Regional Medical Center employs more than 1,200 across its Hunt County locations, and
Walmart runs stores in Commerce, Greenville and Quinlan. Lake Tawakoni, on the county’s eastern
edge, drives a recreation and lakefront-housing economy around Quinlan, West Tawakoni and Hawk
Cove — West Tawakoni brands itself the “Catfish Capital of Texas.”

History

The Texas Legislature formed Hunt County on 11 April 1846, the same year Texas joined the
Union. It was named for Memucan Hunt, Jr., the first Republic of Texas minister to the United
States and later the Republic’s third secretary of the Navy. Greenville, founded the same year
and named for Thomas J. Green, a Texas Republic figure, became the county seat. Cotton built the
county’s early economy on the Blackland Prairie’s heavy soil, and Hunt County was once billed
as the “cotton capital of the world.” During the Civil War, the county was divided over
secession, with some residents fighting for the Union and others for the Confederacy. During
World War II, Majors Army Airfield near Greenville trained Mexican fighter pilots of the
Escuadrón 201, one of the few instances of foreign military training on US soil during the war.

Getting There

Interstate 30 crosses the county’s southwestern corner through Royse City and Caddo Mills,
linking the county to Dallas. US Highway 69 and US Highway 380 cross Greenville and Commerce.

• Dallas — 50 miles southwest
• Tyler — 65 miles southeast
• Paris — 45 miles northeast
• Sherman — 45 miles northwest

Majors Field / North Texas Regional Airport at Greenville handles general aviation. The nearest
commercial airport is Dallas Fort Worth International, about an hour’s drive southwest. Amtrak
does not serve Hunt County; the nearest station is in Dallas.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Hunt County located?
Hunt County is in Northeast Texas, about 50 miles northeast of Dallas.

What is the population of Hunt County?
Hunt County had a population of 99,956 at the 2020 census, estimated at 123,336 by 2025.

How big is Hunt County?
Hunt County covers 882 square miles (2,280 km2), of which 840 square miles are land.

What is the county seat of Hunt County?
Greenville is the county seat, and the county’s postal code there is 75401.

How many towns and villages are in Hunt County?
The county has 13 incorporated cities, 2 incorporated towns and 8 unincorporated communities on
record, 23 places in total.

What ZIP codes cover Hunt County?
Main codes include 75401 (Greenville), 75189 (Royse City), 75428 (Commerce), 75474 (Quinlan/West
Tawakoni) and 75496 (Wolfe City), among others listed above.

What is Hunt County’s largest employer?
L3Harris Technologies, an aerospace and defense manufacturer in Greenville, employs about 6,400
people, the county’s single largest workforce.

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