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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.<ref name="GR6">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Tarrant County, one of 26 counties created out of the Peters Colony, was established in 1849 and organized the next year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is named after Edward H. Tarrant, a lawyer, politician, and militia leader.

The ancestral homelands of Native American tribes: Caddo, Tonkawa, Comanche, and Cherokee covered Tarrant County. The Native American tribes resisted settlement and fought to defend their land. The Battle of Village Creek is a well known battle that took place in Tarrant County.

GeographyEdit

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USGS map of Tarrant County, 1894

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert is land and Template:Convert (4.3%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Adjacent countiesEdit

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DemographicsEdit

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Tarrant County, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition
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White alone (NH) 857,272 895,253 937,135 904,884 73.26% 61.90% 51.80% 42.87%
Black or African American alone (NH) 138,302 182,713 262,522 358,645 11.82% 12.63% 14.51% 16.99%
Asian alone (NH) 28,676 52,057 83,378 127,783 2.45% 3.60% 4.61% 6.05%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) 4,921 5,971 7,037 7,033 0.42% 0.41% 0.39% 0.33%
Pacific Islander alone (NH) N/A 2,042 2,938 4,147 N/A 0.14% 0.16% 0.20%
Other race alone (NH) 1,053 1,540 2,491 8,321 0.09% 0.11% 0.14% 0.39%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) N/A 21,353 30,556 78,920 N/A 1.48% 1.69% 3.74%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 139,879 285,290 482,977 620,907 11.95% 19.73% 26.70% 29.42%
Total 1,170,103 1,446,219 1,809,034 2,110,640 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%

Since the 1850 United States census, Tarrant County has experienced population growth except for the 1870 census; 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.<ref name="2020CensusP2" /> 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% White, 12.8% Black or African American, 0.6% Native American, 3.6% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 9.1% from other races, and 2.5% from two or more races; 19.7% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.<ref name="GR8">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name="2020CensusP2" /> Its increasing racial and ethnic diversity has reflected growing trends of diversification in Texas.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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 same-sex couples per 1,000 households in the county.<ref name=newyorktimes>Template:Citation</ref>

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 per capita income for the county was $22,548. About 8.0% of families and 10.6% of the population were below the poverty line, 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% Non-Hispanic White, 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Total Population Percentage
Non-Hispanic White 920,289 42.2%
Hispanic or Latino 665,936 30.5%
Non-Hispanic Black 401,239 18.4%
Asian 134,804 6.2%
Native American 7,771 0.4%
Pacific Islander 4,428 0.2%
Non-Hispanic Multiracial 48,480 2.2%

Government, courts, and politicsEdit

GovernmentEdit

Tarrant County, like all Texas counties, is governed by a Commissioners Court. The court consists of the county judge, 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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 redistricting 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".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

County Judge and CommissionersEdit

Office Name Party
  County Judge Tim O'Hare Republican
  County Commissioner, Precinct 1 Roderick Miles Democratic
  County Commissioner, Precinct 2 Alisa Simmons Democratic
  County Commissioner, Precinct 3 Matt Krause Republican
  County Commissioner, Precinct 4 Manny Ramirez Republican

County OfficialsEdit

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  Criminal District Attorney Phil Sorrells Republican
  District Clerk Thomas A. Wilder Republican
  County Clerk Mary Louise Nicholson Republican
  Sheriff Bill E. Waybourn Republican
  Tax Assessor-Collector Rick Barnes Republican

ConstablesEdit

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  Constable, Precinct 1 Dale Clark Republican
  Constable, Precinct 2 David Woodruff Republican
  Constable, Precinct 3 Darrell Huffman Republican
  Constable, Precinct 4 Jason Scott Bedford Republican
  Constable, Precinct 5 Pedro Munoz Democratic
  Constable, Precinct 6 Jon H. Siegel Republican
  Constable, Precinct 7 Sandra Lee Democratic
  Constable, Precinct 8 Michael R. Campbell Democratic

County servicesEdit

The JPS Health Network (Tarrant County Hospital District) operates the John Peter Smith Hospital 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,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Haslet<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Edgecliff Village<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> contract service from the Sheriff's Office. DFW Airport,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> while the city of Arlington contracts paramedic apparatus from private entity American Medical Response.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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 public defender.<ref name="Brown">Template:Cite news</ref>

CourtsEdit

Justices of the PeaceEdit

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  Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 Ralph Swearingin Jr. Republican
  Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2 Mary Tom Curnutt Republican
  Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3 Bill Brandt Republican
  Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4 Chris Gregory Republican
  Justice of the Peace, Precinct 5 Sergio L. De Leon Democratic
  Justice of the Peace, Precinct 6 Jason M. Charbonnet Republican
  Justice of the Peace, Precinct 7 Kenneth Sanders Democratic
  Justice of the Peace, Precinct 8 Lisa R. Woodard Democratic

County criminal courtsEdit

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  County Criminal Court No. 1 David Cook Republican
  County Criminal Court No. 2 Carey F. Walker Republican
  County Criminal Court No. 3 Bob McCoy Republican
  County Criminal Court No. 4 Deborah Nekhom Republican
  County Criminal Court No. 5 Brad Clark Republican
  County Criminal Court No. 6 Randi Hartin Republican
  County Criminal Court No. 7 Eric Starnes Republican
  County Criminal Court No. 8 Charles L. "Chuck" Vanover Republican
  County Criminal Court No. 9 Brian Bolton Republican
  County Criminal Court No. 10 Trent Loftin Republican

County civil courtsEdit

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  County Court at Law No. 1 Don Pierson Republican
  County Court at Law No. 2 Jennifer Rymell Republican
  County Court at Law No. 3 Mike Hrabal Republican

County probate courtsEdit

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  County Probate Court No. 1 Patricia Burns Republican
  County Probate Court No. 2 Brooke Allen Republican

Criminal district courtsEdit

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  Criminal District Court No. 1 Elizabeth H. Beach Republican
  Criminal District Court No. 2 Wayne Salvant Republican
  Criminal District Court No. 3 Douglas Allen Republican
  Criminal District Court No. 4 Andy Porter Republican
  213th District Court Chris Wolfe Republican
  297th District Court David C. Hagerman Republican
  371st District Court Ryan Hill Republican
  372nd District Court Julie Lugo Republican
  396th District Court George Gallagher Republican
  432nd District Court Ruben Gonzalez Jr. Republican
  485th District Court Steven Jumes Republican

Civil district courtsEdit

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  17th District Court Melody Wilkinson Republican
  48th District Court Chris Taylor Republican
  67th District Court Don Cosby Republican
  96th District Court J. Patrick Gallagher Republican
  141st District Court John P. Chupp Republican
  153rd District Court Susan Heygood McCoy Republican
  236th District Court Tom Lowe Republican
  342nd District Court Kimberly Fitzpatrick Republican
  348th District Court Megan Fahey Republican
  352nd District Court Josh Burgess Republican

Family district courtsEdit

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  231st District Court Jesus "Jesse" Nevarez Jr. Republican
  233rd District Court Kenneth Newell Republican
  322nd District Court James Munford Republican
  324th District Court Beth Poulos Republican
  325th District Court Cynthia Terry Republican
  360th District Court Patricia Baca Bennett Republican

Juvenile district courtEdit

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  323rd District Court Alex Kim Republican

PoliticsEdit

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 Jim Wright to 17 terms (1955–1989) as U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House (1987–1989), and Wright was succeeded by fellow Democrat Pete Geren (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.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref name="auto" /> Tarrant County has consistently voted Republican in gubernatorial elections since 1994.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The county has leaned Republican in United States Senate races since Democrat Lloyd Bentsen's 1988 victory, but in 2018 and 2024 Democratic U.S. Senate candidates carried Tarrant, though both lost statewide to incumbent Ted Cruz.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Joe Biden carried the county with 49.3% (to Donald Trump's 49.1%) in the 2020 presidential election, the first win for a Democratic presidential ticket in Tarrant County since Texas native Lyndon B. Johnson 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 Gerald Ford carried Tarrant by 2,146 votes over Democrat Jimmy Carter. Many other suburban Texas counties, including Tarrant's immediate neighbors Denton and Collin, as well as those around Houston and Austin, showed similar trends between 2016 and 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, in the 2024 election Tarrant County moved back in the Republican column, supporting Trump over Kamala Harris, 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 Phil Gramm'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.

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State Board of Education membersEdit

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  District 11 Patricia Hardy Republican
  District 13 Erika Beltran Democratic

Texas State RepresentativesEdit

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  90 Ramon Romero Jr. Democratic Fort Worth
  91 Template:Sortname Republican Fort Worth
  92 Template:Sortname Democratic Euless
  93 Template:Sortname Republican Fort Worth
  94 Template:Sortname Republican Arlington
  95 Template:Sortname Democratic Fort Worth
  96 Template:Sortname Republican Arlington
  97 Template:Sortname Republican Fort Worth
  98 Template:Sortname Republican Southlake
  99 Template:Sortname Republican River Oaks
  101 Template:Sortname Democratic Grand Prairie

Texas State SenatorsEdit

District Name<ref name="Texas Redistricting" /> Party Residence
  9 Kelly Hancock Republican Fort Worth
  10 Phil King Republican Weatherford
  12 Tan Parker Republican Flower Mound
  22 Brian Birdwell Republican Granbury
  23 Royce West Democratic Dallas

United States House of RepresentativesEdit

District Name<ref name="Texas Redistricting" /> Party Residence
  Texas's 6th congressional district Jake Ellzey Republican Waxahachie
  Texas's 12th congressional district Craig Goldman Republican Fort Worth
  Texas's 24th congressional district Beth Van Duyne Republican Irving
  Texas's 25th congressional district Roger Williams Republican Weatherford
  Texas's 26th congressional district Brandon Gill Republican Flower Mound
  Texas's 30th congressional district Jasmine Crockett Democratic Dallas
  Texas's 33rd congressional district Marc Veasey Democratic Fort Worth

United States SenateEdit

Class Name<ref name="Texas Redistricting" /> Party Residence
  1 Ted Cruz Republican Houston
  2 John Cornyn Republican Austin

EducationEdit

Colleges and universitiesEdit

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Universities in Tarrant County include:

Primary and secondary schoolsEdit

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Public schools in Texas are organized into independent school districts and charter schools. Tarrant County is also home to dozens of private high schools and nearly 100 lower-level private schools.<ref>Texas Private Schools, accessed 2008-08-23</ref>

Independent school districtsEdit

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Masonic Home Independent School District formerly served a part of the county.<ref>Texas Education Agency: See map of Tarrant County. Retrieved on July 3, 2022.</ref> In 2005 it merged into FWISD.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Charter schoolsEdit

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TransportationEdit

Major highwaysEdit

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C. H. Rogers' Road Map of Tarrant County, 1920

AirportsEdit

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is partially in the cities of Grapevine and Euless in Tarrant County and Irving in Dallas County.

Fort Worth Alliance Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located Template:Convert 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 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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