Coke County, Texas Demographics

Population trends, housing costs, income, commuting, and health, all on one page.

Coke County, TX Population Density Map and Area Scores

Area Score

Health, income and education, each graded from F to A+. Explore interactive maps for deeper analysis.

  • C
    Health Below average
  • D
    Income Well below average
  • D
    Education Well below average
    Better educated than 71% of counties in Texas

Source: Map AI Methodology

Coke County
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Population density, people per sq mi

Population: density and quick facts

Metric Coke County Texas Avg U.S. Average
Population 3,353 30,160,889 337,468,954
Population density (per sq mi) 3.6 112.2 86.4
Population growth (%/yr) 0.48% 1.41% 0.59%
Median age 48.0 35.9 37.3
Households 1,594 10,982,153 130,235,071

Population in Coke County declined by 4.0% from 2009 to 2024, reaching 3,353 in 2024.

Population Growth 2009–2024

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Race & Ethnicity

Group Share

Age & Sex

The largest generation in Coke County is Boomers, aged 61–79, at 25.7% of residents. That is 12.4 points above Texas as a whole.

Residents by birth cohort, from the 2025 age distribution. The right-hand figure is how far each cohort's share sits above or below Texas, in percentage points. Children younger than Gen Z and the generations before the Boomers are counted in the population but not shown here, so these shares do not add up to 100%.

Male and female share

Women are 50.4% of the people living in Coke County and men 49.6%.

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Economy

Coke County has a the economy index of D, which means it is barely prosperous.

Metric Coke County Texas Avg U.S. Average
Median household income $44,113 $78,939 $80,455
Income growth (%/yr) 1.13% 4.56% 4.80%
Unemployment rate 5.6% 5.2% 5.2%

The median household income in Coke County is about 44% lower than in Texas.

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Housing

Metric Coke County Texas Avg U.S. Average
Median home price $70,909 $258,873 $248,835
Median rent $729 $1,402 $1,407
Homeownership rate 71.1% 62.6% 65.2%

The median home price in Coke County is about 8.1 years' worth of rent — buying at the median price costs roughly as much as paying the median rent of $729 per month for that long.

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Commute Time & Mobility

Commuters in Coke County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting.

Metric Coke County Texas Avg U.S. Average
One-way commute (min) 18.2 22.8 22.4
Round-trip commute (min) 36.3 45.6 44.8
Yearly time spent (hours) 151 190 187
Estimated yearly cost $4,690 $5,888 $5,790
Work from home 3.5% 14.4% 15.0%
Highway traffic (vehicles/day) 1,600 9,879 8,813
Local road traffic (vehicles/day) 199 1,441 1,355

Fastest commutes among counties in Texas: Loving County (3.2 min), King County (5.8 min), Terrell County (6.5 min).
Slowest: Bandera County (38.6 min), San Jacinto County (35.9 min), Liberty County (33.6 min).

The average commute time in Coke County is 18 minutes, shorter than the 23 minutes in Texas.

Estimated yearly cost applies a single national wage rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area. Traffic volume figures come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

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Education & Households

Coke County has a education index of D, which means it is barely educated.

Metric Coke County Texas Avg U.S. Average
Bachelor's degree or higher 18.6% 29.3% 31.6%
Average household size 2.02 2.69 2.53

Highest education index among counties in Texas: Collin County (0.4), Travis County (0.4), Fort Bend County (0.4).
Lowest: Kenedy County (0.0), Hudspeth County (0.1), La Salle County (0.1).

Health

Coke County has a health index of C, which means it is somewhat healthy.

Metric Coke County Texas Avg U.S. Average
Life expectancy (years) 81.2 78.0 78.3
Self-rated poor health 20.7% 21.1% 16.3%
Smokers 19.1% 19.9% 19.0%

Highest health index among counties in Texas: Collin County (0.8), Travis County (0.8), Denton County (0.8).
Lowest: Starr County (0.7), Brooks County (0.7), Presidio County (0.7).

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Coke County, TX Compared With Nearby Counties

How Coke County, TX compares with the 1 counties closest to it.

Area Population Median household income Median home price Commute
Coke County, TX 3,353 $44,113 #2/2 $70,909 #2/2 18.2 min #2/2
Tom Green County, TX 119,577 $68,135 $114,204 15.5 min

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Coke County, Texas.

What is the population of Coke County, Texas?

About 3,353 people live in Coke County, Texas, in 1,594 households of 2.0 people on average. The median age is 48.0, so residents are older than the U.S. median of 37.3 by about 11 years.

Is Coke County, Texas mostly urban or rural?

Averaged over its land area, Coke County, Texas has 4 people per square mile, a density typical of rural areas. That is about 4% of the U.S. average of 86.

Is Coke County, Texas an affordable place to live?

The median home costs 1.6 times the median household income ($70,909 against $44,113), compared with 3.1 times nationally. That is within the traditional rule of thumb of about 3 times income. Median rent of $729 a month takes about 20% of the median household's income, below the 30% level at which HUD considers renters cost-burdened.

How educated are people in Coke County, Texas?

18.6% of adults in Coke County, Texas hold a bachelor's degree or higher (about 1 in 5), well below the U.S. share of 31.6%.

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