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Tarrant County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2020, it had a population of 2,110,640. It is Texas' third-most populous county and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Worth.[1] Tarrant County, one of 26 counties created out of the Peters Colony, was established in 1849 and organized the next year.[2] It was named in honor of General Edward H. Tarrant of the Republic of Texas militia.[3]

Tarrant County
County
Tarrant County Courthouse
Flag Seal
Location within the U.S. state of Texas
Texas's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 32°46′N 97°17′W
Country	United States
State	Texas
Founded	1850
Named for	Edward H. Tarrant
Seat	Fort Worth
Largest city	Fort Worth
Area
• Total	902 sq mi (2,340 km2)
• Land	864 sq mi (2,240 km2)
• Water	39 sq mi (100 km2)  4.3%
Population  (2020)
• Total	2,110,640
• Density	2,340/sq mi (900/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional districts	6th, 12th, 24th, 25th, 26th, 33rd
Website	www.tarrantcounty.com

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 902 square miles (2,340 km²), of which 864 square miles (2,240 km²) is land and 39 square miles (100 km²) (4.3%) is water.[4]

Adjacent counties

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

Communities

Cities (multiple counties)

Cities

Towns

Census-designated places

• Briar (partly in Wise and Parker counties)
• Pecan Acres (small part in Wise County)
• Rendon

Historical census-designated places

• Eagle Mountain

Unincorporated communities

Historical communities

• Birdville
• Bisbee
• Bransford
• Center Point
• Ederville
• Garden Acres
• Handley
• Johnsons Station

Ghost towns

• Birds
• Dido
• Minters Chapel

Notes

• Italics indicate that the city is a principal city of DFW or a county seat.
• The term "town" is used only in reference to relative population. Under Texas law, all incorporated places are officially designated "cities".

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1850	664		—
1860	6,020		806.6%
1870	5,788		−3.9%
1880	24,671		326.2%
1890	41,142		66.8%
1900	52,376		27.3%
1910	108,572		107.3%
1920	152,800		40.7%
1930	197,553		29.3%
1940	225,521		14.2%
1950	361,253		60.2%
1960	538,495		49.1%
1970	716,317		33.0%
1980	860,880		20.2%
1990	1,170,103		35.9%
2000	1,446,219		23.6%
2010	1,809,034		25.1%
2020	2,110,640		16.7%
U.S. Decennial Census[5] 1850–2010[6] 2010–2019[7]

Tarrant County, Texas - Demographic Profile
(NH = Non-Hispanic)

Race / Ethnicity	Pop 2010[8]	Pop 2020[9]	% 2010	% 2020
White alone (NH)	937,135	904,884	51.80%	42.87%
Black or African American alone (NH)	262,522	358,645	14.51%	16.99%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)	7,037	7,033	0.39%	0.33%
Asian alone (NH)	83,378	127,783	4.61%	6.05%
Pacific Islander alone (NH)	2,938	4,147	0.16%	0.20%
Some Other Race alone (NH)	2,491	8,321	0.14%	0.39%
Mixed Race/Multi-Racial (NH)	30,556	78,920	1.69%	3.74%
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	482,977	620,907	26.70%	29.42%
Total	1,809,034	2,110,640	100.00%	100.00%

Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.

As of the census of 2010, there were 1,809,034 people. Tarrant County is currently the second most populous county in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area. Non-Hispanic whites are believed to constitute about 46.7% of the county's population according to current population trends.

As of the census[10] of 2000, there were 1,446,219 people, 533,864 households, and 369,433 families residing in the county. The population density was 1,675 people per square mile (647/km²). There were 565,830 housing units at an average density of 655 per square mile (253/km²). The racial 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.

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.[11]

In the county, the population was spread out, with 28.1% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who were 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.

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.

Government, courts, and politics

Government

Tarrant County, like all Texas counties, is governed by a Commissioners Court, which 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.[12]

County commissioners

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	County Judge	B. Glen Whitley	Republican
	County Commissioner, Precinct 1	Roy Charles Brooks	Democratic
	County Commissioner, Precinct 2	Devan Allen	Democratic
	County Commissioner, Precinct 3	Gary Fickes	Republican
	County Commissioner, Precinct 4	J.D. Johnson	Republican

County officials

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	County Clerk	Mary Louise Nicholson	Republican
	Criminal District Attorney	Sharen Wilson	Republican
	District Clerk	Thomas A. Wilder	Republican
	Sheriff	Bill E. Waybourn	Republican
	Tax Assessor-Collector	Wendy Burgess	Republican

Constables

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	Constable, Precinct 1	Dale Clark	Republican
	Constable, Precinct 2	Robert McGinty	Democratic
	Constable, Precinct 3	Darrell Huffman	Republican
	Constable, Precinct 4	Joe D. "Jody" Johnson	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 services

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,[15] and Haslet[16] and Edgecliff Village[17] contract service from the Sheriff's Office. DFW Airport,[18] 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,[19] while the city of Arlington contracts paramedic apparatus from private entity American Medical Response.[20]

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.[21]

CareFlite air ambulance services operate from Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth.

Courts

Justices of the peace

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	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 courts

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	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	Jamie Cummings	Republican
	County Criminal Court No. 6	Molly Jones	Republican
	County Criminal Court No. 7	Cheril S. Hardy	Republican
	County Criminal Court No. 8	Charles L. "Chuck" Vanover	Republican
	County Criminal Court No. 9	Brent A. Carr	Republican
	County Criminal Court No. 10	Vacant

County civil courts

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	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 courts

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	County Probate Court No. 1	Chris Ponder	Republican
	County Probate Court No. 2	Brooke Allen	Republican

Criminal district courts

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	Criminal District Court No. 1	Elizabeth H. Beach	Republican
	Criminal District Court No. 2	Wayne Salvant	Republican
	Criminal District Court No. 3	Robb Catalano	Republican
	Criminal District Court No. 4	Mike Thomas	Republican
	213th District Court	Chris Wolfe	Republican
	297th District Court	David C. Hagerman	Republican
	371st District Court	Ryan Hill	Republican
	372nd District Court	Scott Wisch	Republican
	396th District Court	George Gallagher	Republican
	432nd District Court	Ruben Gonzalez Jr.	Republican

Civil district courts

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	17th District Court	Melody Wilkinson	Republican
	48th District Court	David Evans	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 courts

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	231st District Court	Jesus "Jesse" Nevarez Jr.	Republican
	233rd District Court	Kenneth Newell	Republican
	322nd District Court	James Munford	Republican
	324th District Court	Jerome S. Hennigan	Republican
	325th District Court	Judith Wells	Republican
	360th District Court	Patricia Baca Bennett	Republican

Juvenile district court

Office		Name[13][14]	Party
	323rd District Court	Alex Kim	Republican

Politics

Since the 1960s, Tarrant County has been fairly conservative for an urban county, and 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).

In 2018, 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.[22]

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.[22]

Beginning in 1952, the majority of voters supported the Republican Party presidential candidate in every election except 1964, when Tarrant County voted for the Lyndon B. Johnson-Hubert Humphrey Democratic ticket, then again in 2020 when the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Democratic ticket carried the county. In 2016, Donald Trump-Mike Pence won Tarrant with 51.7% of the vote, the worst showing for Republicans since the Bob Dole-Jack Kemp ticket in 1996 won by a margin of 8.6%, and closest since 1976 when Gerald Ford-Bob Dole carried the county by less than 1% over the Jimmy Carter-Walter Mondale ticket.

The first Republican elected to the State Senate from Tarrant County since Reconstruction was Betty Andujar in 1972.

The county has leaned Republican in United States Senate races since Democrat Lloyd Bentsen's 1988 victory, but in the 2018 election Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke carried Tarrant, though losing statewide to incumbent Ted Cruz.[23]

In 2020, 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 race in the county since 1976, which was won by the razor thin margin of 1,826 votes (The margin of votes in 2020, in comparison, was 1,836 votes). Many other suburban Texas counties, including Tarrant's immediate neighbors in Denton County and Collin County as well as those around Houston and Austin, have shown similar trends since 2016.

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.

United States presidential election results for Tarrant County, Texas[24]

Year	Republican		Democratic		Third party
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
2020	409,741	49.09%	411,567	49.31%	13,389	1.60%
2016	345,921	51.74%	288,392	43.14%	34,201	5.12%
2012	348,920	57.12%	253,071	41.43%	8,899	1.46%
2008	348,420	55.43%	274,880	43.73%	5,253	0.84%
2004	349,462	62.39%	207,286	37.01%	3,393	0.61%
2000	286,921	60.74%	173,758	36.78%	11,710	2.48%
1996	208,312	50.85%	170,431	41.60%	30,901	7.54%
1992	183,387	38.90%	156,230	33.14%	131,779	27.96%
1988	242,660	61.24%	151,310	38.19%	2,267	0.57%
1984	248,050	67.25%	120,147	32.57%	665	0.18%
1980	173,466	56.86%	121,068	39.69%	10,532	3.45%
1976	124,433	50.05%	122,287	49.18%	1,911	0.77%
1972	151,596	68.55%	69,187	31.29%	355	0.16%
1968	81,786	42.88%	79,705	41.79%	29,256	15.34%
1964	56,593	36.71%	97,092	62.98%	473	0.31%
1960	72,813	54.75%	59,385	44.66%	788	0.59%
1956	66,329	59.65%	43,922	39.50%	946	0.85%
1952	63,680	57.97%	45,968	41.85%	194	0.18%
1948	17,157	28.25%	36,325	59.81%	7,257	11.95%
1944	4,113	8.05%	36,791	72.05%	10,161	19.90%
1940	7,474	17.15%	36,062	82.73%	53	0.12%
1936	3,781	11.20%	29,791	88.24%	190	0.56%
1932	5,251	15.67%	27,836	83.06%	426	1.27%
1928	20,481	68.99%	9,208	31.01%	0	0.00%
1924	5,859	26.45%	13,673	61.73%	2,619	11.82%
1920	3,486	20.38%	12,431	72.66%	1,191	6.96%
1916	1,550	12.69%	10,269	84.08%	394	3.23%
1912	548	6.13%	7,222	80.79%	1,169	13.08%

State Board of Education members

District		Name[25]	Party
	District 11	Patricia Hardy	Republican
	District 13	Erika Beltran	Democratic

Texas State Representatives

District		Name[25]	Party	Residence
	District 90	Ramon Romero Jr.	Democratic	Fort Worth
	District 91	Stephanie Klick	Republican	Fort Worth
	District 92	Jeff Cason	Republican	Bedford
	District 93	Matt Krause	Republican	Arlington
	District 94	Tony Tinderholt	Republican	Arlington
	District 95	Nicole Collier	Democratic	Fort Worth
	District 96	Bill Zedler	Republican	Arlington
	District 97	Craig Goldman	Republican	Fort Worth
	District 98	Giovanni Capriglione	Republican	Southlake
	District 99	Charlie Geren	Republican	River Oaks
	District 101	Chris Turner	Democratic	Grand Prairie

Texas State Senators

District		Name[25]	Party	Residence
	District 9	Kelly Hancock	Republican	Fort Worth
	District 10	Beverly Powell	Democratic	Burleson
	District 12	Jane Nelson	Republican	Flower Mound
	District 22	Brian Birdwell	Republican	Granbury

United States House of Representatives

District		Name[25]	Party	Residence
	Texas's 6th congressional district	Jake Ellzey	Republican	Waxahachie
	Texas's 12th congressional district	Kay Granger	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	Michael Burgess	Republican	Lewisville
	Texas's 33rd congressional district	Marc Veasey	Democratic	Fort Worth

Education

Colleges and universities

Under the Texas Education Code, Tarrant County is the entire official service area of Tarrant County College (formerly Tarrant County Junior College).[26]

Universities in Tarrant County include:

• University of Texas at Arlington
• Texas Christian University (Fort Worth)

Primary and secondary schools

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.[27]

Independent school districts

Those serving the county include:[28]

Masonic Home Independent School District formerly served a part of the county.[29] In 2005 it merged into FWISD.[30]

Charter schools

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• 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

Private schools

• Colleyville Covenant Christian Academy
• Fort Worth Christian School
• Fort Worth Country Day School
• Lake Country Christian School
• Nolan Catholic High School
• The Oakridge School
• Southwest Christian School
• Temple Christian School
• Trinity Baptist Temple Academy
• Trinity Valley School

Transportation

Major highways

• I-20
• I-30
• I-35W
• I-820
• US 81
• US 287
• 
  Bus. US 287
• US 377
• SH 10
• SH 26
• SH 97
• SH 114
• SH 121
• FM 156
• FM 157
• SH 161
• SH 170
• SH 180
• SH 183
• SH 303
• SH 360

Airports

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 14 miles (23 km) 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.

See also

• List of museums in North Texas
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas
• Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Tarrant County

References

External links

• Tarrant County official website
• Tarrant County in Handbook of Texas Online from The University of Texas at Austin
• Tarrant County profile from The County Information Project

На других языках

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[de] Tarrant County

Das Tarrant County[3] ist ein County im Bundesstaat Texas der Vereinigten Staaten. Der Verwaltungssitz (County Seat) ist Fort Worth.

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- [en] Tarrant County, Texas

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[fr] Comté de Tarrant

Le comté de Tarrant, en anglais : Tarrant County, est l'un des 254 comtés de l'État du Texas, aux États-Unis. Fondé le 20 décembre 1849, il est le deuxième comté le plus peuplé de la région métropolitaine de Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex et Fort Worth en est son siège de comté et la cinquième plus grande ville de l'État. Selon le recensement de 2010, sa population est de 1 809 034 habitants, estimée, en 2017, à 2 054 475 habitants. Le comté a une superficie de 2 336,9 km2, dont 2 236,7 km2 en surfaces terrestres. Le comté est nommé en référence au général Edward H. Tarrant.

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[it] Contea di Tarrant

La contea di Tarrant in inglese Tarrant County è una contea dello Stato del Texas, negli Stati Uniti. La popolazione al censimento del 2010 era di 1 809 034 abitanti.[1] Il capoluogo di contea è Fort Worth.[2] È la terza contea più grande del Texas e la sedicesima degli Stati Uniti. Creata nel 1849 come una delle 26 contee fondate dai Peters Colony[3], ed è stata organizzata nel 1850.[4] Il suo nome deriva dal generale Edward H. Tarrant (1799–1858).

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[ru] Таррант (округ)

Округ Таррант (англ. Tarrant) — округ штата Техас Соединённых Штатов Америки. На 2000 год в нем проживало &&&&&&&&01446230.&&&&&01 446 230 человек. По оценке бюро переписи населения США в 2009 году население округа составляло &&&&&&&&01789900.&&&&&01 789 900 человек[1]. Окружным центром является город Форт-Уэрт.

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