The following is a list of the 191 Texas counties classified as rural according to the US Office of Management and Budget:
- Anderson
- Andrews
- Aransas
- Archer
- Armstrong
- Atascosa
- Austin
- Bailey
- Bandera
- Baylor
- Bee
- Blanco
- Borden
- Bosque
- Brewster
- Briscoe
- Brooks
- Brown
- Burleson
- Burnet
- Caldwell
- Calhoun
- Callahan
- Camp
- Carson
- Cass
- Castro
- Chambers
- Childress
- Clay
- Cochran
- Coke
- Coleman
- Collingsworth
- Colorado
- Comanche
- Concho
- Cooke
- Cottle
- Crane
- Crockett
- Crosby
- Culberson
- Dallam
- Dawson
- Deaf Smith
- Delta
- DeWitt
- Dickens
- Dimmit
- Donley
- Duval
- Eastland
- Edwards
- Erath
- Falls
- Fannin
- Fayette
- Fisher
- Floyd
- Foard
- Franklin
- Freestone
- Frio
- Gaines
- Garza
- Gillespie
- Glasscock
- Goliad
- Gonzales
- Gray
- Grimes
- Hale
- Hall
- Hamilton
- Hansford
- Hardeman
- Hartley
- Haskell
- Hemphill
- Hill
- Hockley
- Hopkins
- Houston
- Howard
- Hudspeth
- Hutchinson
- Irion
- Jack
- Jackson
- Jasper
- Jeff Davis
- Jim Hogg
- Jim Wells
- Jones
- Karnes
- Kendall
- Kenedy
- Kent
- Kimble
- King
- Kinney
- Kleberg
- Knox
- La Salle
- Lamar
- Lamb
- Lampasas
- Lavaca
- Lee
- Leon
- Limestone
- Lipscomb
- Live Oak
- Llano
- Loving
- Lynn
- Madison
- Marion
- Martin
- Mason
- Matagorda
- McCulloch
- McMullen
- Medina
- Menard
- Milam
- Mills
- Mitchell
- Montague
- Moore
- Morris
- Motley
- Navarro
- Newton
- Nolan
- Ochiltree
- Oldham
- Palo Pinto
- Panola
- Parmer
- Pecos
- Polk
- Presidio
- Rains
- Reagan
- Real
- Red River
- Reeves
- Refugio
- Roberts
- Robertson
- Runnels
- Sabine
- San Augustine
- San Jacinto
- San Saba
- Schleicher
- Scurry
- Shackelford
- Shelby
- Sherman
- Somervell
- Stephens
- Sterling
- Stonewall
- Sutton
- Swisher
- Terrell
- Terry
- Throckmorton
- Titus
- Trinity
- Tyler
- Upshur
- Upton
- Uvalde
- Val Verde
- Ward
- Washington
- Wharton
- Wheeler
- Wilbarger
- Willacy
- Wilson
- Winkler
- Wood
- Yoakum
- Young
- Zapata
- Zavala