Tarrant County is a county located in the

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with a 2020 U.S. census population of 2,110,640, making it the third-most populous county in Texas and the 15th-most populous in the

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. Its

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. Tarrant County, one of 26 counties created out of the

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, was established in 1849 and organized the next year. It is named after

Edward H. Tarrant Edward H. Tarrant (1796 – August 2, 1858) was an American politician and general. He served in the Texas House of Representatives during both periods. Tarrant County, whose county seat is Fort Worth, was named after him. Early life and educat ...

, a lawyer, politician, and militia leader. The ancestral homelands of Native American tribes:

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, and

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covered

Tarrant County Tarrant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas with a 2020 U.S. census population of 2,110,640, making it the third-most populous county in Texas and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Worth. T ...

. The Native American tribes resisted settlement and fought to defend their land. The

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is a well known battle that took place in

Geography

According to the

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, the county has an area of , of which is land and (4.3%) is water.

Adjacent counties

Denton County Denton County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 906,422, making it the seventh-most populous county in Texas. The county seat is Denton. The county, which was named for John B. Denton, was esta ...

(north) * Dallas County (east) * Ellis County (southeast) * Johnson County (south) * Parker County (west) * Wise County (northwest)

Communities

Cities (multiple counties)

* Azle (partly in Parker County) * Burleson (mostly in Johnson County) * Crowley (small part in Johnson County) *

(small parts in Denton,

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and Wise counties) *

Grand Prairie Grand Prairie is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Dallas, Tarrant, and Ellis counties with a small part extending into Johnson county. It is part of the Mid-Cities region in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It had a popul ...

(partly in Dallas County and a small part in Ellis County) *

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(small part in

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, and part of Grapevine Lake in

) *

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(small part in

) *

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(small parts in

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and

counties) * Newark (mostly in Wise County) *

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(almost entirely in Parker County) * Roanoke (almost entirely in

) * Southlake (small part in

)

Cities

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* Blue Mound * Colleyville * Dalworthington Gardens *

Euless Euless ( ) is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. Euless is part of the Mid-Cities region between Dallas and Fort Worth. In 2020 Census, the population of Euless was 61,032. The population of the city inc ...

* Everman * Forest Hill * Haltom City *

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* Keller * Kennedale * Lake Worth * North Richland Hills * Pelican Bay * Richland Hills *

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* Sansom Park * Watauga * Westworth Village * White Settlement

Towns

* Benbrook * Edgecliff Village *

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(mostly in

) * Lakeside * Pantego * Trophy Club (mostly in

) * Westlake (small part in

) *

Westover Hills Westover Hills is a town in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 641 at the 2020 census. In 2000, Westover Hills was the wealthiest location in Texas by per capita income and the 12th highest-income place in the United Stat ...

Census-designated places

* Briar (partly in Wise and

counties) * Pecan Acres (small part in Wise County) * Rendon

Historical census-designated places

* Eagle Mountain

Unincorporated communities

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(partly in

) * Avondale *

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* Eagle Acres * Lake Crest Estates * Lake Forest * Lake Shore Estates

Historical communities

* Birdville * Bisbee *

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* Center Point * Ederville * Garden Acres * Handley * Johnsons Station

Ghost towns

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* Minters Chapel

* *

Demographics

Since the

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, Tarrant County has experienced population growth except for the

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; in 1850, the county had a population of 664, growing to 1,170,103 at the 1990 census. By the 2020 census, the county's population grew to 2,110,640. Tarrant County is the second-most populous county in the Metroplex, behind Dallas County. In 2000, the racial and ethnic makeup of the county was 71.2%

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, 12.8%

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, 0.6% Native American, 3.6% Asian, 0.2%

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, 9.1% from other races, and 2.5% from two or more races; 19.7% of the population were

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or Latino of any race. In 2020, its racial and ethnic makeup was 42.87% non-Hispanic white, 29.42% Hispanic or Latino American of any race, 16.99% Black or African American, 6.05% Asian alone, 0.33% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.20% Pacific Islander, 0.39% some other race, and 3.74% multiracial. Its increasing racial and ethnic diversity has reflected growing trends of diversification in Texas. In 2000, there were 533,864 households, out of which 36.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.6% were married couples living together, 12.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.8% were non-families. 24.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 3.22. As of the 2010 census, there were about 5.2

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per 1,000 households in the county. In 2000, 28.1% of the county's population was under the age of 18, 10.0% was from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.6 males. In 2000, the median income for a household in the county was $46,179, and the median income for a family was $54,068. Males had a median income of $38,486 versus $28,672 for females. The

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for the county was $22,548. About 8.0% of families and 10.6% of the population were below the

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, including 13.8% of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those age 65 or over. According to the 2021 census estimates, the median income for a household in the county was $71,346. American Community Survey 2023 Data The United States Census Bureau estimated that in 2023, Tarrant County’s population was 2,182,947. It was also estimated that the county's population was 42.2%

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, 30.5% Hispanic or Latino, 18.4% Non-Hispanic Black, 6.2% Asian, 0.4% Native American, 0.2% Pacific Islander, and 2.2% Multiracial.

Government, courts, and politics

Government

Tarrant County, like all Texas counties, is governed by a

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. The court consists of the

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, who is elected county-wide and presides over the full court, and four commissioners, who are elected in each of the county's four precincts. In May 2025, when there were two Democrats and two Republicans on the Tarrant County Commissioners Court, County Judge Tim O'Hare declared that the ongoing process of

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Tarrant County precincts was "purely 100% about partisan politics", as he detailed that "my plan and what I campaigned on openly and publicly, dating as far back as May 2021", is to "pass a map that guarantees, or comes as close as you can to guarantee, three Republican commissioners" in Tarrant County out of four, as O'Hare thought that "Tarrant County would be better served if we have strong Republican leadership".

County Judge and Commissioners

County Officials

Constables

County services

The

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(Tarrant County Hospital District) operates the

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and health centers. Countywide law enforcement is provided by the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office and Tarrant County Constable's Office. All cities in the county provide their own police services, with three exceptions: Westlake contracts service from the Keller Police Department, and Haslet and Edgecliff Village contract service from the Sheriff's Office. DFW Airport, the Tarrant County Hospital District, and the Tarrant Regional Water District also provide their own police forces. Since the disbandment of the North Tarrant County Fire Department, no countywide firefighting services exist. All municipalities provide their own fire departments. Most cities also operate their own ambulances, with two notable exceptions: Fort Worth and 14 other Tarrant County cities are served by the Metropolitan Area EMS Authority (MAEMSA), a governmental administrative agency established under an interlocal operating agreement and operating as MedStar Mobile Health, while the city of Arlington contracts paramedic apparatus from private entity American Medical Response. Fire and EMS protection in unincorporated portions of Tarrant County is governed by the Tarrant County Emergency Services District #1, which administers contracts with 17 fire departments (including 10 with EMS response) and has mutual aid agreements with eight additional fire departments. CareFlite air ambulance services operate from Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth. As of 2021, Tarrant County was the largest county by population in the United States with no

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Courts

Justices of the Peace

County criminal courts

County civil courts

County probate courts

Criminal district courts

Civil district courts

Family district courts

Juvenile district court

Politics

Since the 1950s, Tarrant County has been very conservative for an urban county, and is one of the most populous Republican-leaning counties in the nation. However, it elected Democrat

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to 17 terms (1955–1989) as U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House (1987–1989), and Wright was succeeded by fellow Democrat

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(1989–1997). The county has become more competitive since the 2010s, and has voted to the left of Texas as a whole. Beginning in 2016, the Democratic Party rebounded to represent a larger portion of the political profile and made huge gains in Tarrant County, concentrated in several areas throughout the county: eastern Euless, Grand Prairie and eastern and southern Arlington, northern and western areas of Mansfield, large portions of Fort Worth, particularly the area surrounding the Stockyards and Meacham Airport, southern and eastern Fort Worth, especially in dense metro areas and along I-35W, and Forest Hill. Republicans are dominant in many of the rural areas of the county, downtown and western Fort Worth and north of Loop 820, and almost all suburban areas including Benbrook, rural Mansfield areas and western Arlington, Haltom City, Mid-Cities (Hurst, Euless, and Bedford), and the northern suburbs. Tarrant County has consistently voted Republican in gubernatorial elections since

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. The county has leaned Republican in United States Senate races since Democrat Lloyd Bentsen's 1988 victory, but in

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and

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidates carried Tarrant, though both lost statewide to incumbent

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carried the county with 49.3% (to

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's 49.1%) in the 2020 presidential election, the first win for a Democratic presidential ticket in Tarrant County since Texas native

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in 1964, and the closest such race in the county since at least 1912. Biden's margin over Trump was 1,826 votes; the next closest margin was in 1976, when Republican

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carried Tarrant by 2,146 votes over Democrat

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. Many other suburban Texas counties, including Tarrant's immediate neighbors Denton and Collin, as well as those around

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and

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, showed similar trends between 2016 and 2020. However, in the 2024 election Tarrant County moved back in the Republican column, supporting Trump over

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, 51.8% to 46.7%. This was still to the left of the state as a whole, which voted for Trump 56.1% to 42.4% in 2024. From the 1893 beginning of U.S. House District 12, there have been two Republicans in 127 years elected to the U.S. House for the western half of Tarrant County; from the 1875 inception of U.S. House District 6, there have been three Republicans in 145 years elected to the U.S. House for the eastern portion of Tarrant County, including former congressman and senator

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's election as both a Democrat and a Republican after he switched parties in 1983 to run for re-election. The first Republican elected to the State Senate from Tarrant County since Reconstruction was Betty Andujar in 1972.

State Board of Education members

Texas State Representatives

Texas State Senators

United States House of Representatives

United States Senate

Education

Colleges and universities

Under the Texas Education Code, Tarrant County is the entire official service area of

Tarrant County College Tarrant County College (TCC) or Tarrant County College District (TCCD) is a public community college in Tarrant County, Texas. It offers five transferrable degrees as well as degrees and certificates in occupational and technical programs. The d ...

(formerly Tarrant County Junior College). Universities in Tarrant County include: *

University of Texas at Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas, United States. It is the second oldest university in the University of Texas System and was founded in 1895. It was in the Texas A& ...

Texas Christian University Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private university, private research university in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It was established in 1873 by brothers Addison Clark, Addison and Randolph Clark as the AddRan Male & Female College. It i ...

(Fort Worth) * Texas A&M University School of Law (Fort Worth) *

Texas Wesleyan University Texas Wesleyan University is a private Methodist university in Fort Worth, Texas. It was founded in 1890 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The main campus is located in the Polytechnic Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth. Its mascot is ...

(Fort Worth) *

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is a Baptist theological institute in Fort Worth, Texas. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. It was established in 1908 and in 2005 was one of the largest seminaries in the wor ...

(Fort Worth)

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools in Texas are organized into independent

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s and

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s. Tarrant County is also home to dozens of private high schools and nearly 100 lower-level private schools.

Independent school districts

Those serving the county include: *

Arlington Independent School District Arlington Independent School District or Arlington ISD is a school district based in Arlington, Texas ( USA). The Arlington Independent School District covers the majority of Arlington and much of the Tarrant County portion of Grand Prairi ...

* Birdville Independent School District *

Carroll Independent School District The Carroll Independent School District (Carroll ISD) is an independent PK-12 school district founded in 1959. It serves the majority of the city of Southlake, Texas, United States, and portions of northwest Grapevine, Texas, Grapevine, far nor ...

* Castleberry Independent School District *

Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District The Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District is located in the northwest corner of Tarrant County, Texas (United States) and includes of land in Saginaw, Eagle Mountain, Blue Mound and several housing additions in the City of Fo ...

* Everman Independent School District * Fort Worth Independent School District *

Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD) is a public school district based in Grapevine, Texas, USA. The district serves most of the cities of Grapevine and Colleyville and includes small portions of Euless, Hurst, and Southl ...

(most) *

Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District (HEB ISD) is a K-12 public school district based in Bedford, Texas ( USA). The district serves the city of Bedford, most of the cities of Euless and Hurst, and small parts of North Richland Hi ...

* Keller Independent School District * Kennedale Independent School District * Lake Worth Independent School District * White Settlement Independent School District *

Aledo Independent School District Aledo Independent School District is a public school district based in Aledo, Texas (USA). Located in southeastern Parker County, a small portion of the district extends into western Tarrant County. In addition to Aledo, the district also se ...

(partial) *

Azle Independent School District Azle Independent School District is a public school district based in Azle, Texas, United States. The district covers northwestern Tarrant County, northeastern Parker County, and a small portion of southern Wise County. In addition to Azle, ...

(partial) *

Burleson Independent School District Burleson Independent School District is a public school district based in Burleson, Texas ( USA). The district was founded in 1909 by the citizens of Burleson. In addition to Burleson, the district also serves Briaroaks, Cross Timber, Fort ...

(partial) * Crowley Independent School District (partial) *

Godley Independent School District Godley Independent School District is a public school district based in Godley, Texas (USA). In 2010, the school district was rated " Recognized" by the Texas Education Agency. SchoolsGodley High School(Grades 9-12)Godley Middle School(Grad ...

(partial) *

Lewisville Independent School District Lewisville Independent School District (LISD) is a 127-square mile school district based in Lewisville, Texas, Lewisville, Texas (United States, USA) covering all of Lewisville, Texas, Lewisville, The Colony, Texas, The Colony, Highland Village, ...

(partial) * Mansfield Independent School District (partial) *

Northwest Independent School District Northwest Independent School District (Northwest ISD) is a North Texas public school district with its headquarters in the city of Fort Worth, Texas ( USA). with a Justin postal address. The school district is named for its location in the nort ...

(partial) Masonic Home Independent School District formerly served a part of the county. In 2005 it merged into FWISD.

Charter schools

* Arlington Classics Academy * Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts * IDEA Public Schools * Harmony Public Schools * Newman International Academy * Texas School of the Arts * Treetops School International * Uplift Education (partial) * Westlake Academy * Great Hearts

Private schools

Colleyville Covenant Christian Academy Covenant Christian Academy of Colleyville, Texas, is a private Christian school that was founded in 1979. It is an accredited ACCS school and a member of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools The Texas Association of Privat ...

Fort Worth Christian School Fort Worth Christian School is a private Christian preparatory school in North Richland Hills, Texas. Established in 1958, the school serves students in preschool through grade 12. On February 27, 2010, the 43rd President of the United States ...

Fort Worth Country Day School Fort Worth Country Day (FWCD) is a JK-12 private, independent, coeducational, nondenominational college-preparatory school located on approximately 100 acres in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is accredited by the Independent Schools Associ ...

* Lake Country Christian School *

Nolan Catholic High School Nolan Catholic High School is a private, coeducational, college preparatory school, formerly in the Marianist tradition, and is located in the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas. It serves grades 9-12, has an average student population of 800, and serv ...

* The Oakridge School * Southwest Christian School * Temple Christian School *

Trinity Valley School Trinity Valley School ("TVS") is a PK-12, co-ed, independent school in Fort Worth, Texas. Trinity Valley School has four main objectives for its students: fine scholarship with its fulfillment at college; the development of wide constructive in ...

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Rogers Road Map of Tarrant County 1920 UTA

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Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the North Texas region, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the largest hub for American Airlines, which is headquartere ...

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in Tarrant County and Irving in Dallas County.

Fort Worth Alliance Airport Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport is a public airport north of the central business district of Fort Worth, Texas, United States. The airport is owned by the City of Fort Worth and managed by Alliance Air Services, a subsidiary of Hillw ...

is a city-owned public-use airport located north of the central business district of Fort Worth on Interstate-35W. Billed as the world's first purely industrial airport, it was developed in a joint venture between the City of Fort Worth, the Federal Aviation Administration and Hillwood Development Company, a real estate development company owned by H. Ross Perot Jr. Alliance Airport has 9600' and 8200' runways.

Fort Worth Meacham International Airport Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (Meacham Field) is a general aviation airport located near the intersection of Interstate 820 and Business U.S. Highway 287 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It is named after former Fort Worth May ...

is located at the intersection of Interstate 820 and U.S. Business Highway 287 in northwest Fort Worth, 5 miles from the downtown business district. Meacham International Airport has two parallel runways. Fort Worth Spinks Airport is located 14 miles south of the downtown business district. The airport is located at the intersection of Interstate-35W and HWY 1187 and serves as a reliever airport for Fort Worth Meacham International Airport and Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport.

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Tarrant County official website

Tarrant County in ''Handbook of Texas Online''
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Tarrant County profile from The County Information Project
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