Fort Bend County, Texas

Fort Bend County, Texas
County
Fort Bend County Courthouse, Richmond, November 2008
Seal
Location within the U.S. state of Texas
Coordinates: 29°31′35.767″N 95°46′15.654″W
Country	United States
State	Texas
Founded	1837 (created) January 13, 1838 (organized)
Named for	A blockhouse positioned in a bend of the Brazos River
Seat	Richmond
Largest city	Sugar Land
Area
• Total	885.250 sq mi (2,292.79 km2)
• Land	861.785 sq mi (2,232.01 km2)
• Water	23.465 sq mi (60.77 km2)  2.65%
Population  (2026)
• Total	999,354
• Estimate  (2026)	999,400
• Density	1,112.141/sq mi (429.400/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional districts	7th, 9th, 22nd
Website	www.fortbendcountytx.gov

Fort Bend County Courthouse in 1948

Fort Bend County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The county was founded on December 29, 1837, and organized the next year. It is named for a blockhouse at a bend of the Brazos River. The community developed around the fort in early days. The county seat is Richmond. The largest city located entirely within the county borders is Sugar Land. The largest city by population in the county is Houston, but most of Houston's population is located in neighboring Harris County.

Fort Bend County is included in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area and the Texas Triangle megaregion of the United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 822,779, making it the state's eighth-most populous county. In 2017, Forbes ranked it the fifth-fastest growing county in the United States.

In 2020, the United States Census announced that Fort Bend County had the largest ethnic-identified Asian people population for 254 Texas Counties, making up 22.2 percent of total County residents.