Kaufman County Crossed 200,000 in the 2025 Estimate

Kaufman County passed a new milepost in the Census Bureau's 2025 estimates: 209,235 residents. The agency's April 2020 estimates base was 145,337, a difference of 63,898 people in a little more than five years.

The latest one-year step was also large. The estimate moved from 198,010 in 2024 to 209,235 in 2025, a 5.7 percent increase. Among U.S. counties with at least 20,000 residents, that rate ranked third.

The jump did not come out of nowhere. Census researchers found that Kaufman County, just east of Dallas, had the nation's highest domestic migration rate in each year from 2021 through 2023. Those moving years are now part of the county's story, right alongside its older railroad and farm chapters.