Table 80
TEXAS
Full-time Law Enforcement Employees
by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2017
| Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan | County |
Total law enforcement employees |
Total officers |
Total civilians |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Counties | Aransas | 72 | 23 | 49 |
| Archer | 21 | 21 | 0 | |
| Armstrong | 9 | 4 | 5 | |
| Austin | 73 | 45 | 28 | |
| Bandera | 67 | 29 | 38 | |
| Bastrop | 193 | 77 | 116 | |
| Bowie | 44 | 36 | 8 | |
| Brazoria | 329 | 131 | 198 | |
| Brazos | 243 | 106 | 137 | |
| Burleson | 40 | 13 | 27 | |
| Caldwell | 99 | 35 | 64 | |
| Callahan | 14 | 6 | 8 | |
| Chambers | 106 | 52 | 54 | |
| Clay | 26 | 14 | 12 | |
| Crosby | 15 | 6 | 9 | |
| Dallas | 2,247 | 485 | 1,762 | |
| Denton | 586 | 207 | 379 | |
| Ector | 228 | 91 | 137 | |
| Ellis | 229 | 83 | 146 | |
| Fort Bend | 779 | 529 | 250 | |
| Grayson | 160 | 60 | 100 | |
| Gregg | 253 | 102 | 151 | |
| Guadalupe | 219 | 98 | 121 | |
| Hardin | 66 | 28 | 38 | |
| Harris | 4,609 | 2,250 | 2,359 | |
| Hays | 316 | 156 | 160 | |
| Hidalgo | 784 | 276 | 508 | |
| Hood | 147 | 55 | 92 | |
| Hunt | 136 | 40 | 96 | |
| Irion | 10 | 5 | 5 | |
| Jefferson | 407 | 128 | 279 | |
| Jones | 31 | 8 | 23 | |
| Kaufman | 231 | 85 | 146 | |
| Medina | 72 | 35 | 37 | |
| Midland | 203 | 80 | 123 | |
| Montgomery | 896 | 488 | 408 | |
| Newton | 23 | 22 | 1 | |
| Parker | 127 | 90 | 37 | |
| Potter | 197 | 97 | 100 | |
| Robertson | 30 | 12 | 18 | |
| Smith | 376 | 164 | 212 | |
| Tarrant | 1,399 | 1,219 | 180 | |
| Taylor | 234 | 88 | 146 | |
| Travis | 1,699 | 350 | 1,349 | |
| Upshur | 80 | 45 | 35 | |
| Victoria | 190 | 118 | 72 | |
| Waller | 84 | 60 | 24 | |
| Wichita | 207 | 76 | 131 | |
| Williamson | 521 | 212 | 309 | |
| Wilson | 74 | 33 | 41 | |
| Wise | 133 | 61 | 72 | |
| Nonmetropolitan Counties | Anderson | 81 | 34 | 47 |
| Andrews | 38 | 13 | 25 | |
| Angelina | 102 | 46 | 56 | |
| Baylor | 8 | 3 | 5 | |
| Borden | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Briscoe | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Brooks | 41 | 16 | 25 | |
| Brown | 68 | 29 | 39 | |
| Camp | 18 | 7 | 11 | |
| Cass | 50 | 21 | 29 | |
| Castro | 19 | 7 | 12 | |
| Cherokee | 75 | 33 | 42 | |
| Childress | 20 | 5 | 15 | |
| Concho | 13 | 7 | 6 | |
| Crane | 11 | 6 | 5 | |
| Crockett | 12 | 9 | 3 | |
| Dawson | 19 | 7 | 12 | |
| Deaf Smith | 38 | 13 | 25 | |
| Delta | 23 | 11 | 12 | |
| Dickens | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
| Dimmit | 65 | 31 | 34 | |
| Donley | 10 | 6 | 4 | |
| Eastland | 31 | 12 | 19 | |
| Edwards | 10 | 4 | 6 | |
| Fannin | 23 | 22 | 1 | |
| Fisher | 12 | 4 | 8 | |
| Floyd | 11 | 7 | 4 | |
| Franklin | 25 | 11 | 14 | |
| Frio | 24 | 20 | 4 | |
| Gaines | 37 | 15 | 22 | |
| Garza | 37 | 9 | 28 | |
| Gillespie | 51 | 28 | 23 | |
| Gonzales | 55 | 21 | 34 | |
| Gray | 44 | 14 | 30 | |
| Grimes | 56 | 29 | 27 | |
| Hall | 9 | 3 | 6 | |
| Hansford | 13 | 7 | 6 | |
| Hartley | 7 | 6 | 1 | |
| Haskell | 12 | 4 | 8 | |
| Hockley | 30 | 11 | 19 | |
| Hopkins | 62 | 26 | 36 | |
| Houston | 48 | 20 | 28 | |
| Hutchinson | 34 | 15 | 19 | |
| Jack | 32 | 11 | 21 | |
| Jackson | 36 | 12 | 24 | |
| Jasper | 22 | 20 | 2 | |
| Jeff Davis | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Jim Wells | 68 | 31 | 37 | |
| Karnes | 61 | 27 | 34 | |
| Kent | 6 | 3 | 3 | |
| Kerr | 104 | 49 | 55 | |
| Kimble | 13 | 8 | 5 | |
| King | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Kinney | 6 | 6 | 0 | |
| Kleberg | 75 | 23 | 52 | |
| Knox | 9 | 3 | 6 | |
| Lamar | 71 | 24 | 47 | |
| Lamb | 29 | 10 | 19 | |
| La Salle | 121 | 24 | 97 | |
| Live Oak | 47 | 15 | 32 | |
| Loving | 6 | 4 | 2 | |
| Madison | 31 | 13 | 18 | |
| Matagorda | 67 | 34 | 33 | |
| Menard | 10 | 6 | 4 | |
| Nacogdoches | 86 | 42 | 44 | |
| Nolan | 34 | 12 | 22 | |
| Ochiltree | 23 | 7 | 16 | |
| Palo Pinto | 53 | 23 | 30 | |
| Panola | 58 | 37 | 21 | |
| Parmer | 6 | 5 | 1 | |
| Rains | 26 | 12 | 14 | |
| Reagan | 20 | 13 | 7 | |
| Red River | 37 | 14 | 23 | |
| Runnels | 27 | 6 | 21 | |
| Scurry | 38 | 10 | 28 | |
| Shackelford | 16 | 7 | 9 | |
| Shelby | 33 | 15 | 18 | |
| Starr | 91 | 48 | 43 | |
| Stephens | 20 | 6 | 14 | |
| Sterling | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| Swisher | 9 | 4 | 5 | |
| Terrell | 9 | 4 | 5 | |
| Terry | 37 | 10 | 27 | |
| Throckmorton | 6 | 2 | 4 | |
| Titus | 59 | 25 | 34 | |
| Upton | 24 | 11 | 13 | |
| Uvalde | 72 | 36 | 36 | |
| Val Verde | 66 | 44 | 22 | |
| Van Zandt | 72 | 36 | 36 | |
| Washington | 58 | 30 | 28 | |
| Wheeler | 24 | 10 | 14 | |
| Willacy | 42 | 14 | 28 | |
| Winkler | 24 | 9 | 15 | |
| Wood | 34 | 25 | 9 | |
| Yoakum | 21 | 8 | 13 |
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