Parker county, Texas - wikipedia Parker county, Texas Not to be confused with Parker, Texas. Parker County, Texas The Parker County courthouse in Weatherford Flag Location in the U.S. state of Texas Texas 's location in the U.S. Founded 1856 Seat Weatherford Largest city Weatherford Area Total 910 sq mi ( 2,357 km ) Land 903 sq mi ( 2,339 km ) Water 6.6 sq mi ( 17 km ), 0.7 % Population ( 2010 ) 116,927 Density 129 / sq mi ( 50 / km ) Congressional district 12th Time zone Central : UTC − 6 / − 5 Website www.parkercountytx.com Confederate soldier statue at Parker County Courthouse Parker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 116,927. The county seat is Weatherford. The county was created in 1855 and organized the following year. It is named for Isaac Parker, a state legislator who introduced the bill that established the county in 1855. Parker County is included in the Dallas - Fort Worth - Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Highest point 1.2 Major highways 1.3 Adjacent counties 2 Demographics 3 Communities 3.1 Cities ( multiple counties ) 3.2 Cities 3.3 Towns 3.4 Census - designated places 3.5 Unincorporated communities 4 Politics 5 Notable people 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 910 square miles ( 2,400 km ), of which 903 square miles ( 2,340 km ) is land and 6.6 square miles ( 17 km ) ( 0.7 % ) is water. The county is intersected by the Brazos River. Highest point Main article : Slipdown Mountain Slipdown Mountain and Slipdown Bluff, at a height of 1,368 feet ( 417 m ), are the highest points in Parker County. They are located just east of the Advance community, southwest of Poolville. Major highways I - 20 I - 30 US 180 US 377 FM 5 FM 51 FM 52 FM 113 SH 171 SH 199 SH 312 FM 920 Adjacent counties Wise County ( north ) Tarrant County ( east ) Johnson County ( southeast ) Hood County ( south ) Palo Pinto County ( west ) Jack County ( northwest ) Demographics Historical population Census Pop. % ± 1860 4,213 -- 1870 4,186 − 0.6 % 1880 15,870 279.1 % 1890 21,682 36.6 % 1900 25,823 19.1 % 1910 26,331 2.0 % 1920 23,382 − 11.2 % 1930 18,759 − 19.8 % 1940 20,482 9.2 % 1950 21,528 5.1 % 1960 22,880 6.3 % 1970 33,888 48.1 % 1980 44,609 31.6 % 64,785 45.2 % 2000 88,495 36.6 % 116,927 32.1 % Est. 2016 129,441 10.7 % U.S. Decennial Census 1850 -- 2010 2010 -- 2014 As of the census of 2003, there were 98,495 people, 31,131 households, and 24,313 families residing in the county. The population density was 98 people per square mile ( 38 / km2 ). There were 34,084 housing units at an average density of 38 per square mile ( 15 / km2 ). The racial makeup of the county was 83.17 % White, 1.79 % Black or African American, 0.67 % Native American, 0.35 % Asian, 0.02 % Pacific Islander, 12.61 % from other races, and 1.38 % from two or more races. 7.02 % of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 31,131 households out of which 38.00 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.60 % were married couples living together, 8.70 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 21.90 % were non-families. 18.30 % of all households were made up of individuals and 7.10 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.11. As of the 2010 census, there were about 3.4 same - sex couples per 1,000 households in the county. In the county, the population was spread out with 27.50 % under the age of 18, 7.90 % from 18 to 24, 29.80 % from 25 to 44, 24.20 % from 45 to 64, and 10.50 % who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 104.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.10 males. The median income for a household in the county was $45,497, and the median income for a family was $51,530. Males had a median income of $37,913 versus $25,412 for females. The per capita income for the county was $20,305. About 5.90 % of families and 8.30 % of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.30 % of those under age 18 and 9.60 % of those age 65 or over. Communities Cities ( multiple counties ) Azle ( mostly in Tarrant County ) Cresson ( partly in Hood and Johnson Counties ) Fort Worth ( mostly in Tarrant County, with small parts in Denton, Wise, and Parker Counties ) Mineral Wells ( mostly in Palo Pinto County ) Reno ( small part in Tarrant County ) Cities Aledo Cool Hudson Oaks Springtown Weatherford ( county seat ) Willow Park Towns Annetta Annetta North Annetta South Millsap Sanctuary Census - designated places Briar ( partly in Wise and Tarrant Counties ) Horseshoe Bend Western Lake Unincorporated communities Adell Agnes Brock Dennis Garner Goshen Peaster Poolville Whitt Politics Parker County, like most suburban counties in the Dallas - Fort Worth Metropolitan Area, has been a Republican stronghold for decades. Republicans have held all public offices since 1999 and the county has not voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate since 1976. Presidential elections results Presidential elections results Year Republican Democratic Third parties 2016 81.8 % 46,473 14.7 % 8,344 3.5 % 2,000 2012 82.3 % 39,243 16.5 % 7,853 1.3 % 598 2008 77.1 % 36,974 21.9 % 10,502 1.0 % 475 77.6 % 31,795 21.9 % 8,966 0.5 % 196 2000 71.2 % 23,651 26.7 % 8,878 2.1 % 696 54.3 % 14,580 35.2 % 9,447 10.5 % 2,828 37.5 % 10,321 28.9 % 7,934 33.6 % 9,239 62.0 % 14,090 37.5 % 8,517 0.5 % 116 1984 69.1 % 13,647 30.6 % 6,050 0.3 % 62 1980 52.7 % 8,505 45.4 % 7,336 1.9 % 314 1976 36.2 % 4,692 63.1 % 8,186 0.7 % 91 1972 69.1 % 7,152 30.8 % 3,184 0.1 % 13 1968 33.0 % 3,068 46.2 % 4,301 20.8 % 1,934 1964 29.2 % 2,175 70.7 % 5,270 0.2 % 13 1960 48.5 % 3,467 50.8 % 3,629 0.7 % 52 1956 51.5 % 3,390 48.0 % 3,165 0.5 % 33 1952 50.5 % 3,523 49.2 % 3,434 0.3 % 19 1948 19.8 % 806 75.0 % 3,061 5.2 % 213 1944 12.3 % 559 76.9 % 3,503 10.8 % 493 1940 13.1 % 558 86.7 % 3,687 0.2 % 8 1936 13.0 % 375 86.1 % 2,493 1.0 % 28 1932 10.7 % 372 88.3 % 3,074 1.0 % 36 1928 66.2 % 2,178 33.8 % 1,110 1924 14.7 % 438 80.3 % 2,391 5.0 % 150 1920 20.6 % 488 74.5 % 1,765 4.9 % 116 1916 7.8 % 173 80.7 % 1,797 11.5 % 257 1912 5.6 % 135 70.7 % 1,700 23.7 % 569 Notable people Orville Bullington, attorney and politician Oliver Loving, Loving - Goodnight Cattle Trail Bose Ikard, trusted cattle driver of Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight Mary Martin, star of stage and screen S.W.T. Lanham, last Confederate governor of Texas Jim Wright, youngest mayor of Weatherford, TX, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Douglas Chandor ( 1897 - 1953 ), international portrait artist See also Dallas portal Texas portal List of museums in North Texas National Register of Historic Places listings in Parker County, Texas Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Parker County References ^ Jump up to : `` State & County QuickFacts ''. United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved December 22, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Find a County ''. National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved 2011 - 06 - 07. Jump up ^ `` Texas : Individual County Chronologies ''. Texas Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. The Newberry Library. 2008. Retrieved May 26, 2015. Jump up ^ `` PARKER COUNTY ''. Retrieved 24 March 2016. Jump up ^ `` PARKER, ISAAC ''. Retrieved 24 March 2016. Jump up ^ `` 2010 Census Gazetteer Files ''. United States Census Bureau. August 22, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2015. Jump up ^ Ripley, George ; Dana, Charles A., eds. ( 1879 ). `` Parker ''. The American Cyclopædia. Jump up ^ `` Parker County Highpoint Trip Report ''. Retrieved 24 March 2016. Jump up ^ `` Population and Housing Unit Estimates ''. Retrieved June 9, 2017. Jump up ^ `` U.S. Decennial Census ''. United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Retrieved May 6, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Texas Almanac : Population History of Counties from 1850 -- 2010 '' ( PDF ). Texas Almanac. Retrieved May 6, 2015. Jump up ^ Where Same - Sex Couples Live, June 26, 2015, retrieved July 6, 2015 Jump up ^ Leip, David. `` Dave Leip 's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections ''. uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved 2018 - 07 - 28. Jump up ^ http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fch17 External links Parker County government 's website The Parker County Poor Farm Historic photos from the Weatherford College Library, hosted by the Portal to Texas History Parker County in Handbook of Texas Online Places adjacent to Parker County, Texas Jack County Wise County Palo Pinto County Parker County, Texas Tarrant County Hood County Johnson County Municipalities and communities of Parker County, Texas, United States County seat : Weatherford Cities Aledo Azle ‡ Cool Cresson ‡ Fort Worth ‡ Hudson Oaks Mineral Wells ‡ Reno ‡ Springtown ‡ Weatherford Willow Park Towns Annetta Annetta North Annetta South Millsap Sanctuary CDPs Briar ‡ Horseshoe Bend Western Lake Other unincorporated communities Brock Dennis Garner Goshen Peaster Poolville Whitt Footnotes ‡ This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties Dallas -- Fort Worth -- Arlington Counties Collin Dallas Denton Ellis Hood Hunt Johnson Kaufman Parker Rockwall Somervell Tarrant Wise Major cities Dallas Fort Worth Arlington Cities and towns 100k -- 300k Carrollton Denton Frisco Garland Grand Prairie Irving Lewisville McKinney Mesquite Plano Richardson Cities and towns 25k -- 99k Allen Bedford Cedar Hill Cleburne The Colony Coppell DeSoto Duncanville Euless Farmers Branch Flower Mound Grapevine Haltom City Highland Village Hurst Keller Lancaster Mansfield North Richland Hills Rockwall Rowlett Southlake Wylie Cities and towns 10k -- 25k Addison Balch Springs Benbrook Burleson Colleyville Corinth Ennis Forest Hill Forney Greenville Sachse Saginaw Seagoville Terrell University Park Watauga Waxahachie Weatherford White Settlement Counties of Texas Anderson Andrews Angelina Aransas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bailey Bandera Bastrop Baylor Bee Bell Bexar Blanco Borden Bosque Bowie Brazoria Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Caldwell Calhoun Callahan Cameron Camp Carson Cass Castro Chambers Cherokee Childress Clay Cochran Coke Coleman Collin Collingsworth Colorado Comal Comanche Concho Cooke Coryell Cottle Crane Crockett Crosby Culberson Dallam Dallas Dawson Deaf Smith Delta Denton DeWitt Dickens Dimmit Donley Duval Eastland Ector Edwards El Paso Ellis Erath Falls Fannin Fayette Fisher Floyd Foard Fort Bend Franklin Freestone Frio Gaines Galveston Garza Gillespie Glasscock Goliad Gonzales Gray Grayson Gregg Grimes Guadalupe Hale Hall Hamilton Hansford Hardeman Hardin Harris Harrison Hartley Haskell Hays Hemphill Henderson Hidalgo Hill Hockley Hood Hopkins Houston Howard Hudspeth Hunt Hutchinson Irion Jack Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jim Hogg Jim Wells Johnson Jones Karnes Kaufman Kendall Kenedy Kent Kerr Kimble King Kinney Kleberg Knox La Salle Lamar Lamb Lampasas Lavaca Lee Leon Liberty Limestone Lipscomb Live Oak Llano Loving Lubbock Lynn Madison Marion Martin Mason Matagorda Maverick McCulloch McLennan McMullen Medina Menard Midland Milam Mills Mitchell Montague Montgomery Moore Morris Motley Nacogdoches Navarro Newton Nolan Nueces Ochiltree Oldham Orange Palo Pinto Panola Parker Parmer Pecos Polk Potter Presidio Rains Randall Reagan Real Red River Reeves Refugio Roberts Robertson Rockwall Runnels Rusk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto San Patricio San Saba Schleicher Scurry Shackelford Shelby Sherman Smith Somervell Starr Stephens Sterling Stonewall Sutton Swisher Tarrant Taylor Terrell Terry Throckmorton Titus Tom Green Travis Trinity Tyler Upshur Upton Uvalde Val Verde Van Zandt Victoria Walker Waller Ward Washington Webb Wharton Wheeler Wichita Wilbarger Willacy Williamson Wilson Winkler Wise Wood Yoakum Young Zapata Zavala State of Texas Austin ( capital ) Topics Architecture Climate Cuisine Geography Government Healthcare History Languages Law Literature Media Newspapers Radio TV National Historic Landmarks Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks National Register of Historic Places Sites Sports Symbols Texans Tourist attractions Transportation Seal of Texas Society Culture Crime Demographics Economy Education Gambling Politics Regions Ark ‐ La ‐ Tex Big Bend Blackland Prairies Brazos Valley Central Texas Coastal Bend Concho Valley Cross Timbers Deep East Texas East Texas Edwards Plateau Golden Triangle Hill Country Llano Estacado Northeast Texas North Texas Osage Plains Panhandle Permian Basin Piney Woods Rio Grande Valley Southeast Texas South Plains South Texas Texoma Trans - Pecos West Texas Metropolitan areas Abilene Amarillo Austin -- Round Rock Beaumont -- Port Arthur Brownsville -- Harlingen College Station -- Bryan Corpus Christi Dallas -- Fort Worth -- Arlington El Paso Houston -- The Woodlands -- Sugar Land Killeen -- Temple Laredo Longview Lubbock McAllen -- Edinburg -- Mission Midland Odessa San Angelo San Antonio -- New Braunfels Sherman -- Denison Texarkana Tyler Victoria Waco Wichita Falls Counties See : List of counties in Texas Coordinates : 32 ° 47 ′ N 97 ° 49 ′ W ﻿ / ﻿ 32.78 ° N 97.81 ° W ﻿ / 32.78 ; 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Question: what is the population of parker county texas
Answer: 116,927