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Texas Land Ownership Statistics 2025

How much of Texas is vacant land, how many of its property owners live away from what they own, and which counties stand out — counted from TxGIO StratMap Land Parcels parcel records for 232 counties (2025 tax roll).

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Key statistics

  1. 10,800,007

    Texas has 10,800,007 parcels on record across the 232 counties with published parcel rolls.

    Scope: 232 counties with published parcel rolls.

  2. 26%

    2,794,257 Texas parcels — 26% of all parcels — are vacant land with no building on them.

    Scope: 232 counties with published parcel rolls.

  3. 47%

    47% of Texas property owners — 4,983,801 ownership records — are absentee: their mailing address is not the parcel's.

    Scope: 227 counties that publish owner mailing addresses.

  4. 4%

    466,367 Texas property owners (4%) have a mailing address in another state.

    Scope: 227 counties that publish owner mailing addresses.

  5. 95%

    The highest absentee-owner share in Texas is Mills County at 95%, followed by Newton County (94%) and Morris County (90%).

    Scope: counties with at least 1,000 mailable owners.

  6. 31%

    The highest out-of-state owner share in Texas is Loving County at 31%, followed by Presidio County (28%) and Culberson County (27%).

    Scope: counties with at least 1,000 mailable owners.

  7. 103,791

    Dallas County has the most vacant land parcels in Texas: 103,791, followed by Montgomery County (90,708) and Liberty County (81,324).

    Scope: 232 counties with published parcel rolls.

  8. 8 ac

    In the typical Texas county, the median vacant parcel is 8 acres; county medians run from 0.1 to 640 acres.

    Scope: 232 counties with published parcel rolls.

  9. 33,828

    33,828 Texas vacant-land owners are behind on their property taxes, per the 12 counties whose delinquent-tax lists we track.

    Scope: 12 counties with a current delinquent-tax list.

By county

232 counties, A to Z. Owner-location columns are blank where the county's records can't support the mailing-vs-parcel comparison.

CountyParcelsVacant parcelsVacant %Absentee %Out-of-state %Median vacant acres
Anderson County31,73912,73240%70%4%4.6
Andrews County10,4713,06129%69%3%161.3
Angelina County54,18319,01335%48%3%0.9
Aransas County25,6308,38833%83%5%0.2
Archer County8,9394,29948%45%4%85.4
Armstrong County3,5582,31565%83%4%163
Atascosa County36,49015,25942%71%5%2
Austin County22,3056,82531%74%3%4.4
Bailey County5,8992,83148%83%9%141
Bandera County32,75317,82854%77%6%0.6
Bastrop County60,83419,13531%43%3%0.5
Baylor County5,7993,16054%39%5%78
Bee County17,3057,08041%75%3%7.5
Bell County165,59233,12320%54%6%0.3
Bexar County703,92071,88410%42%5%0.2
Blanco County13,6266,70749%57%4%5.9
Borden County2,8402,52089%8%12%160
Bosque County19,5096,41033%78%2%10
Bowie County53,17315,07328%16%7%1.3
Brazoria County171,53837,35022%54%3%0.6
Brazos County74,5669,81413%58%4%0.7
Brewster County17,71112,66672%25%17%10
Briscoe County3,9262,53765%100%4%124
Brooks County5,2192,51148%64%3%9.3
Brown County31,2719,65631%72%4%0.4
Burleson County22,10210,19946%76%4%1.2
Burnet County49,39121,25143%76%5%0.3
Caldwell County25,5106,84527%72%5%1.1
Calhoun County22,6249,20441%67%6%0.4
Callahan County11,9785,30544%47%3%14.7
Cameron County175,44733,47119%65%5%0.3
Camp County11,4214,93443%76%5%1.5
Carson County6,2752,28536%61%4%161.7
Cass County32,04314,51345%48%8%10
Castro County6,2462,41739%66%5%159.8
Chambers County35,9868,89425%60%6%3.3
Cherokee County44,64922,01049%62%5%2.4
Childress County5,7662,47243%61%6%106.9
Clay County13,1517,03754%25%4%63.2
Cochran County5,3403,48865%25%20%17.9
Coke County7,3044,32259%28%6%44.7
Coleman County12,7636,63052%50%4%12.7
Collin County387,67551,45213%42%4%0.2
Collingsworth County4,4002,59459%86%7%160.8
Colorado County21,2127,09433%51%3%5.9
Comal County103,20226,44426%52%5%0.6
Comanche County16,6517,58646%76%3%11.9
Concho County7,6114,51059%45
Cooke County29,4719,90834%73%2%6.3
Coryell County31,6596,65821%60%5%5.1
Cottle County3,7352,39964%42%14%146
Crane County5,5681,90034%39%11%374
Crockett County8,9806,50272%26%7%398.7
Crosby County6,2713,34953%61%5%156.1
Culberson County12,0257,02158%10%27%534.5
Dallam County6,0242,42540%48%10%271.3
Dallas County693,556103,79115%35%3%0.2
Dawson County9,1603,31036%90%3%153.6
Deaf Smith County10,7683,17730%46%5%160
Delta County6,4203,02647%69%3%12.3
Denton County352,76644,61213%30%4%0.2
DeWitt County20,7509,80847%79%3%27.2
Dickens County4,4423,13871%121.9
Dimmit County8,4304,30751%59%10%0.8
Duval County14,4309,81168%32%2%24.5
Eastland County19,9538,23441%73%3%29.2
Ector County75,70419,28225%49%4%0.8
Edwards County9,4945,62359%23%4%71
Ellis County98,54624,30925%45%4%0.3
Erath County24,6447,60931%74%4%8.4
Falls County17,7137,88945%75%4%9.3
Fannin County27,6739,67135%79%3%8.6
Fayette County23,3007,69133%80%3%11.5
Fisher County6,3813,80760%33%6%99.2
Floyd County6,6933,86558%0%6%80
Foard County4,5263,27872%12%13%69.2
Fort Bend County375,05041,18311%36%3%0.4
Franklin County16,2759,19456%60%6%0.5
Freestone County23,70612,61853%86%5%13.6
Frio County12,4895,21242%80%3%64.5
Gaines County16,4256,86042%2.6
Galveston County182,96440,22022%85%4%0.2
Gillespie County24,3038,44635%75%3%6.8
Glasscock County2,8952,28679%19%4%279.5
Goliad County9,9234,98350%35%3%17
Gonzales County19,76210,31152%84%3%24.6
Gray County15,3014,27128%69%5%0.8
Grayson County87,96924,69628%67%5%0.6
Gregg County58,93414,07324%64%4%0.5
Grimes County27,32412,64746%74%3%1.1
Guadalupe County95,08819,35220%53%6%0.5
Hale County17,6984,31024%64%5%40
Hall County5,6063,41461%49%5%100.9
Hamilton County13,4596,56549%74%3%12.3
Hansford County5,4522,41844%54%10%312.4
Hardin County36,58914,55440%63%5%1
Harris County536,51164,23812%45%4%0.2
Harrison County47,31119,44941%100%8%3.1
Hartley County5,5633,12956%31%7%180
Haskell County8,0794,33754%42%5%76.7
Hays County116,50124,87221%50%6%0.3
Hemphill County3,9592,00551%53%8%170.3
Henderson County87,03942,62149%70%4%0.2
Hidalgo County325,95655,59717%0%4%0.5
Hill County38,94118,58348%76%4%0.9
Hockley County16,4926,61840%47%4%5.1
Hood County50,87618,12936%62%4%0.3
Hopkins County24,48314,69560%0%3%0.8
Houston County24,93913,29853%55%3%20.3
Howard County19,8455,90330%60%4%0.8
Hunt County69,65620,00029%62%4%0.6
Hutchinson County17,4826,42437%64%8%0.2
Irion County2,9542,00668%38%4%273.3
Jack County10,6766,52661%84%3%41.5
Jackson County18,2459,04650%79%10%1
Jasper County36,44118,24850%74%7%0.9
Jeff Davis County6,2974,69775%25%25%243.9
Jefferson County121,96868,71256%53%3%0.2
Jim Hogg County3,7031,18732%65%2%105.7
Johnson County101,79127,41927%48%3%1
Jones County14,96212,58884%45%5%2
Karnes County12,3986,24450%86%3%34.8
Kaufman County93,44621,46123%59%4%0.6
Kendall County29,3408,61629%67%3%4.4
Kent County3,2592,51777%22%5%159.3
Kerr County34,56912,01035%80%3%5.1
Kimble County8,9675,00956%35%3%35.8
King County1,7701,62692%10%5%351.4
Kinney County10,5428,21178%34%6%0.1
Kleberg County14,8263,62324%71%4%2
Knox County5,4303,39262%39%7%80
La Salle County10,3196,80266%47%8%1.4
Lamar County34,99311,26332%64%4%4.8
Lamb County12,4355,11241%40%4%80.5
Lampasas County16,3616,49840%62%2%10
Lavaca County19,3896,21032%76%2%11
Lee County15,6246,12539%88%3%10.4
Leon County26,57517,46666%80%7%2.6
Liberty County122,58281,32466%86%5%0.3
Limestone County21,2459,77646%81%4%10
Lipscomb County3,0611,46548%0%15%161
Llano County36,08917,23048%86%5%0.3
Loving County1,76486649%5%31%614.3
Lubbock County135,11219,70615%53%5%0.3
Lynn County6,9383,63352%63%4%157.7
Madison County10,2184,26842%83%2%10.2
Marion County19,54212,53664%0.3
Martin County6,5852,71941%46%5%161.5
Matagorda County35,76416,36046%89%4%0.3
Maverick County25,4777,26129%62%3%1.1
McCulloch County9,5494,99552%39%3%56.5
McLennan County114,26617,91716%59%3%0.6
McMullen County3,8483,01278%9%7%55.9
Medina County40,69316,51741%74%4%5
Menard County5,5203,88570%55%4%101.9
Midland County74,82215,84221%57%3%0.7
Milam County20,9287,84737%57%2%6.8
Mills County8,7164,10347%95%3%25.1
Mitchell County8,5434,07848%87%7%80.8
Montgomery County320,49390,70828%30%4%0.3
Moore County11,8744,26136%60%4%1.2
Morris County10,7503,79435%90%5%12.3
Motley County4,4043,37177%0%6%80
Navarro County45,45917,40238%38%4%2
Newton County16,4079,38857%94%13%3.7
Nolan County12,5114,40835%53%6%39.7
Nueces County147,86937,20025%68%3%0.2
Ochiltree County6,4991,96130%67%7%160
Oldham County4,1102,98873%24%4%298.7
Orange County49,93313,83528%79%4%0.7
Palo Pinto County35,29715,40644%0%5%1.1
Panola County15,8307,86350%75%9%20.7
Parker County93,91730,58733%47%3%2.3
Parmer County6,4842,50339%47%8%158.5
Pecos County14,4477,83554%39%9%640
Polk County57,82031,06954%84%7%0.3
Presidio County16,50811,95772%19%28%16
Rains County12,1995,19243%71%3%1
Reagan County3,2661,45144%30%3%612.4
Real County8,0434,57857%60%3%15.5
Reeves County14,2388,62261%26%17%27.7
Refugio County7,2123,18644%90%3%10
Roberts County2,5701,96877%16%13%349.7
Rockwall County52,57811,47922%40%5%0.2
Rusk County33,95315,62346%89%5%13.5
Sabine County16,8838,80252%0%13%0.7
San Augustine County10,6536,12457%18%6%12.4
San Jacinto County35,29618,46852%84%6%0.3
San Patricio County40,03011,91930%78%4%1
San Saba County10,4486,07658%30%2%56.1
Schleicher County4,9383,17264%40%4%107
Scurry County13,5615,34839%51%4%3.7
Shackelford County5,4453,20459%43%3%63.8
Shelby County20,2429,06645%54%7%11.2
Sherman County3,4661,67648%322.3
Somervell County6,6092,40636%0%3%2.1
Starr County34,55511,94335%66%2%1.4
Stephens County10,6375,06648%52%4%43.9
Sterling County2,2311,50668%41%4%387
Stonewall County4,7123,17767%21%6%165.4
Sutton County5,6423,67265%31%4%156.8
Swisher County6,5182,53139%46%6%109
Tarrant County747,70539,7015%0%6%0.3
Taylor County68,54713,79120%62%4%0.8
Terry County8,9463,51339%0%3%80
Throckmorton County4,4192,64160%38%5%160.3
Titus County20,4996,59032%80%5%4
Tom Green County58,63013,21023%61%3%1.6
Trinity County24,58316,24466%74%8%0.2
Tyler County23,95013,09455%77%10%0.9
Upshur County29,97911,31338%70%4%4
Upton County4,6922,01943%38%6%223.3
Uvalde County21,2578,94742%77%4%8.5
Van Zandt County42,68618,66544%35%2%3.4
Victoria County45,0749,62321%64%2%3
Walker County35,39315,77145%72%4%1
Waller County41,94215,03836%63%4%0.3
Ward County14,6736,12942%44%17%5.1
Washington County22,9255,58724%72%2%4.7
Webb County98,22017,11817%46%2%0.5
Wharton County31,76512,86140%80%3%4.8
Wheeler County6,6892,94744%70%8%137.5
Wichita County58,65410,01317%54%5%0.5
Wilbarger County11,5934,58140%71%6%11.5
Willacy County12,1615,32044%51%5%11.4
Wilson County28,1077,42926%53%2%4.5
Winkler County6,8482,72140%57%5%334.4
Wise County48,42815,12731%70%3%2.2
Wood County42,72117,32941%53%5%0.8
Young County16,2785,95037%78%3%26.5
Zapata County11,0714,75143%64%4%1
Zavala County9,0234,44449%86%5%34.8

How these numbers are counted

  • Parcels are every record on the county's published parcel roll; vacant land is the county's own vacant land-use codes (no building value).
  • Absentee means the owner's mailing address differs from the parcel's address; out-of-state means the mailing address is in another state. Both are shares of owners with a mailable address, and are omitted for counties whose parcel addresses can't support the comparison.
  • Counts are deduplicated by owner and mailing address where the source allows it. Figures change when a county publishes a new roll.
  • Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Cite as: Land Lead Directory, "Texas Land Ownership Statistics 2025", TxGIO StratMap Land Parcels (2025 tax roll). https://landleaddirectory.com/statistics/texas
  • The same county files for every state we cover are also on Kaggle, Hugging Face and GitHub.

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