Tarrant
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Tarrant

County

Territory

  • officials recorded 16
  • partly recorded 18
  • nothing recorded 2
GEOID
48439
OCD-ID
ocd-division/country:us/state:tx/county:tarrant
POP
2,248,466 (2025)
CENTER
32.7719, -97.2911
SOURCE
census tiger

Government of Tarrant

Bodies, seats, agencies and services that belong to Tarrant itself. Jurisdictions inside it are listed separately below.

Organization 18

Departments

  • Department responsible for county budget preparation and financial planning

  • Legislative body of Tarrant County government, consisting of the County Judge and four commissioners

  • Office responsible for auditing county finances and ensuring fiscal accountability

  • Elected office responsible for recording and maintaining official county records

  • Elected office responsible for managing county funds and investments

  • Elected office responsible for prosecuting criminal cases in Tarrant County

  • Elected office responsible for maintaining records of the district courts

  • Department responsible for administering elections in Tarrant County

  • Department responsible for emergency preparedness, response, and disaster recovery

  • Department responsible for maintenance and operations of county buildings and facilities

  • Department responsible for county employee recruitment, benefits, and personnel management

  • Department responsible for county technology infrastructure and systems

  • Office responsible for investigating deaths and determining cause of death in Tarrant County

  • Office providing legal defense services to indigent defendants in Tarrant County courts

  • Department responsible for public health services and disease prevention in Tarrant County

  • Department responsible for county procurement and vendor management

  • Elected office responsible for law enforcement, jail operations, and court security in Tarrant County

  • Elected office responsible for assessing and collecting county property taxes

Within Tarrant

Each of these governs itself. Counts are that jurisdiction's own records.

jurisdictions
51
agencies
312
bodies
40
officials
90
Name Agencies Bodies Officials
Fort Worth 27 1 11
Arlington 27 1 9
Mansfield 1 1 1
North Richland Hills 1 1 0
Euless 1 1 1
Grapevine 1 1 1
Bedford 1 1 1
Keller 9 1 6
Haltom City 12 1 7
Hurst 10 1 7
Southlake 4 1 7
Saginaw 10 1 7
Colleyville 8 1 7
Benbrook 8 1 4
Watauga 7 1 8
Crowley 7 1 7
White Settlement 17 1 6
Forest Hill 13 1 0
Kennedale 10 1 0
Richland Hills 12 1 0
River Oaks 12 3 0
Everman 10 1 0
Sansom Park 10 1 0
Haslet 10 0 0
Lake Worth 19 5 0
Edgecliff Village 5 0 0
Westworth Village 7 4 0
Pelican Bay 9 1 0
Pantego 7 0 0
Blue Mound 5 1 0
Dalworthington Gardens 10 3 0
Westlake 14 0 0
Lakeside 1 0 0
Westover Hills 7 1 0
Arlington Independent School District 0 0 0
Birdville Independent School District 0 0 0
Carroll Independent School District 0 0 0
Castleberry Independent School District 0 0 0
Crowley Independent School District 0 0 0
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District 0 0 0
Everman Independent School District 0 0 0
Fort Worth Independent School District 0 0 0
Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District 0 0 0
Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District 0 0 0
Keller Independent School District 0 0 0
Kennedale Independent School District 0 0 0
Lake Worth Independent School District 0 0 0
Mansfield Independent School District 0 0 0
Pecan Acres 0 0 0
Rendon 0 0 0

Showing the 50 largest of 51. Totals include all of them.