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Athens, TX Micro Area

The Athens, TX micro area is one county in Texas: Henderson County. About 88,595 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 7.8% more than in April 2020.

Henderson County, centralAthens
Henderson County in Texas
Population, July 2025
88,595 7.8% more than in April 2020
Type
Micropolitan statistical area
County
Henderson County
Land area
874 sq mi (2,263 km²)
Time zone
Central TimeUTC-06:00 in January; UTC-05:00 in July
State
Texas
Combined statistical area
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK
CBSA code
11980
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The county in the Athens, TX micro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Henderson CountyCentral88,595

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of 10,000 to 49,999 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Athens13,200 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 9 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area8,477,157 people
  2. Sherman-Denison, TX Metro Area153,613 people
  3. Granbury, TX Micro Area70,501 people
  4. Corsicana, TX Micro Area57,181 people
  5. Durant, OK Micro Area51,367 people
  6. Gainesville, TX Micro Area44,461 people
  7. Bonham, TX Micro Area39,265 people
  8. Sulphur Springs, TX Micro Area39,063 people
  9. Mineral Wells, TX Micro Area30,791 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Tyler, TX Metro Area32 mi east
  2. Palestine, TX Micro Area33 mi south
  3. Jacksonville, TX Micro Area37 mi southeast
  4. Corsicana, TX Micro Area38 mi west
  5. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area68 mi northwest

Before using this answer on a form

A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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