Love County, Oklahoma

A county in Oklahoma, ranked 56 of 77 by population.

CountyFIPS 40085

Within Oklahoma
Love County, highlighted, with the areas around it. Boundaries generalised from the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file; neighbour fills carry no data. The dot marks Marietta, the county seat, located via the 2025 Census Gazetteer.

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Population
10,780
+621 (+6.1%) since 2020
Land area
513.9
square miles. A further 3.4% of the total area is water
Population density
21.0
people per square mile, computed rather than published
County seat
Marietta
Seat of county government.
Established
1907
118 years ago
Largest city
Marietta city
Population 2,982.

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; Wikidata (CC0), Wikidata. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

Satellite view

Aerial imagery of Love County with its boundary drawn on top. A map shows you the shape; this shows you what is inside it, and which side of the line a place falls on.

Aerial view of Love County, Oklahoma from the USGS National Map, with its boundary outlined
Imagery: USGS National Map, USGS Imagery Only, public domain, requested from USGS by your browser when you reach this point on the page, at 800 by 573 pixels. The boundary is the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file, reprojected to Web Mercator to match the imagery. You can also open the USGS National Map viewer.

Where Love County ranks

Position among the 77 counties of Oklahoma, and among all 3,144 US counties and county-equivalents. Computed from the figures on this page.

MeasureValueIn OklahomaNationally
Population10,78056th of 772,359th of 3,144
Land area513.9 sq mi73rd of 772,027th of 3,144
Population density21.0 per sq mi41st of 772,206th of 3,144
Median household income$66,58012th of 771,461st of 3,143

Full data for Love County

Every figure below is attributed to the Census Bureau product it came from, with the vintage of that product.
MeasureValueSource and vintage
Population10,780Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Population in 202010,159Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
2020 estimates base?10,145Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Land area513.9 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Water area18.3 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Total area532.3 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Population density?21.0 per sq miComputed: Vintage 2025 estimates divided by 2025 Gazetteer land area
Median household income$66,580American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median home value$171,000American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median age39.1American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Households3,899American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Housing units4,732American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, released 29 January 2026. Population density is computed here, not published: it divides the Vintage 2025 population estimate by the 2025 Gazetteer land area, which are two different Census products. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

How the population changed

The Census Bureau publishes the components behind an estimate, not just the total. For the year to July 2025:

Births minus deaths
-3
132 births, 135 deaths
Net migration
+185
More people moved in than moved out.

Source: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

The 6 areas bordering Love County

Ordered by the length of the border actually shared, which the Census Bureau publishes in its county adjacency file and which no other county reference presents.

Bordering areaStateShared borderPopulation
Cooke CountyTexas84 mi44,461
Carter CountyOklahoma34 mi48,910
Jefferson CountyOklahoma16 mi5,431
Marshall CountyOklahoma10 mi16,255
Montague CountyTexas5.1 mi21,966
Grayson CountyTexas0.7 mi153,613

Source: US Census Bureau, County Adjacency File, 2025 County Adjacency File, released 15 September 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

All 77 counties of Oklahoma

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Data on this page last rebuilt 30 August 2026. How these figures are produced.