Clinical Nurse Specialists, 2018
County Supply and Distribution Tables
| County | 2018 Population | 2018 CNS Total | Ratio of 2018 Population to CNS | Ratio of CNSs to 100,000 Population | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson | 61,477 | 2 | 30,738.5 | 3.3 | 32 |
| Andrews | 16,936 | 1 | 16,936.0 | 5.9 | 14 |
| Angelina | 92,754 | 2 | 46,377.0 | 2.2 | 48 |
| Aransas | 25,551 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Archer | 9,706 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Armstrong | 1,988 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Atascosa | 53,655 | 2 | 26,827.5 | 3.7 | 27 |
| Austin | 34,766 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Bailey | 8,150 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Bandera | 24,187 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Bastrop | 94,545 | 3 | 31,515.0 | 3.2 | 34 |
| Baylor | 3,709 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Bee | 33,135 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Bell | 377,611 | 27 | 13,985.6 | 7.2 | 11 |
| Bexar | 1,988,364 | 158 | 12,584.6 | 7.9 | 7 |
| Blanco | 12,503 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Borden | 690 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Bosque | 20,038 | 3 | 6,679.3 | 15.0 | 5 |
| Bowie | 94,579 | 3 | 31,526.3 | 3.2 | 35 |
| Brazoria | 389,066 | 6 | 64,844.3 | 1.5 | 55 |
| Brazos | 229,259 | 10 | 22,925.9 | 4.4 | 21 |
| Brewster | 10,053 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Briscoe | 1,677 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Brooks | 7,577 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Brown | 40,221 | 1 | 40,221.0 | 2.5 | 44 |
| Burleson | 19,257 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Burnet | 50,386 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Caldwell | 46,748 | 1 | 46,748.0 | 2.1 | 49 |
| Calhoun | 24,472 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Callahan | 14,488 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Cameron | 475,631 | 6 | 79,271.8 | 1.3 | 64 |
| Camp | 14,013 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Carson | 6,451 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Cass | 31,760 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Castro | 8,740 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Chambers | 44,844 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Cherokee | 56,215 | 3 | 18,738.3 | 5.3 | 17 |
| Childress | 7,385 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Clay | 11,487 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Cochran | 3,403 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Coke | 3,136 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Coleman | 9,188 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Collin | 1,065,557 | 25 | 42,622.3 | 2.3 | 45 |
| Collingsworth | 3,200 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Colorado | 22,327 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Comal | 141,332 | 1 | 141,332.0 | 0.7 | 71 |
| Comanche | 14,677 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Concho | 4,264 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Cooke | 41,073 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Coryell | 84,483 | 1 | 84,483.0 | 1.2 | 66 |
| Cottle | 1,583 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Crane | 5,145 | 1 | 5,145.0 | 19.4 | 2 |
| Crockett | 4,019 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Crosby | 6,986 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Culberson | 2,660 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Dallam | 7,789 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Dallas | 2,581,608 | 101 | 25,560.5 | 3.9 | 23 |
| Dawson | 14,610 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Deaf Smith | 21,948 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Delta | 5,677 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Denton | 877,332 | 12 | 73,111.0 | 1.4 | 59 |
| De Witt | 20,770 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Dickens | 2,491 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Dimmit | 10,719 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Donley | 3,844 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Duval | 12,476 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Eastland | 19,629 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Ector | 154,975 | 4 | 38,743.8 | 2.6 | 43 |
| Edwards | 2,153 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Ellis | 189,032 | 2 | 94,516.0 | 1.1 | 67 |
| El Paso | 920,048 | 24 | 38,335.3 | 2.6 | 42 |
| Erath | 40,787 | 3 | 13,595.7 | 7.4 | 10 |
| Falls | 18,995 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Fannin | 36,962 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Fayette | 27,558 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Fisher | 3,918 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Floyd | 6,621 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Foard | 1,368 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Fort Bend | 819,681 | 15 | 54,645.4 | 1.8 | 52 |
| Franklin | 11,586 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Freestone | 21,559 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Frio | 19,512 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Gaines | 20,800 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Galveston | 325,997 | 16 | 20,374.8 | 4.9 | 18 |
| Garza | 6,879 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Gillespie | 28,827 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Glasscock | 1,328 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Goliad | 8,255 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Gonzales | 21,871 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Gray | 24,399 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Grayson | 130,993 | 2 | 65,496.5 | 1.5 | 56 |
| Gregg | 133,401 | 5 | 26,680.2 | 3.7 | 26 |
| Grimes | 29,959 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Guadalupe | 171,409 | 4 | 42,852.3 | 2.3 | 46 |
| Hale | 38,010 | 1 | 38,010.0 | 2.6 | 41 |
| Hall | 3,328 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hamilton | 8,738 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hansford | 6,313 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hardeman | 4,396 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hardin | 60,694 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Harris | 4,716,479 | 182 | 25,914.7 | 3.9 | 24 |
| Harrison | 70,840 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hartley | 6,262 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Haskell | 6,026 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hays | 225,340 | 6 | 37,556.7 | 2.7 | 40 |
| Hemphill | 4,270 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Henderson | 83,089 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hidalgo | 955,781 | 8 | 119,472.6 | 0.8 | 69 |
| Hill | 38,517 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hockley | 24,649 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hood | 59,191 | 2 | 29,595.5 | 3.4 | 31 |
| Hopkins | 37,796 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Houston | 24,894 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Howard | 37,244 | 6 | 6,207.3 | 16.1 | 4 |
| Hudspeth | 3,888 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hunt | 98,305 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Hutchinson | 22,476 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Irion | 1,705 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Jack | 9,569 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Jackson | 14,291 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Jasper | 36,935 | 1 | 36,935.0 | 2.7 | 39 |
| Jeff Davis | 2,469 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Jefferson | 264,481 | 8 | 33,060.1 | 3.0 | 36 |
| Jim Hogg | 5,658 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Jim Wells | 43,829 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Johnson | 178,835 | 3 | 59,611.7 | 1.7 | 54 |
| Jones | 21,867 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Karnes | 15,976 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Kaufman | 138,601 | 5 | 27,720.2 | 3.6 | 28 |
| Kendall | 42,562 | 2 | 21,281.0 | 4.7 | 20 |
| Kenedy | 455 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Kent | 807 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Kerr | 55,505 | 3 | 18,501.7 | 5.4 | 16 |
| Kimble | 4,953 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| King | 299 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Kinney | 3,778 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Kleberg | 34,778 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Knox | 3,756 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Lamar | 52,456 | 2 | 26,228.0 | 3.8 | 25 |
| Lamb | 14,494 | 1 | 14,494.0 | 6.9 | 12 |
| Lampasas | 22,609 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| La Salle | 7,957 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Lavaca | 19,717 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Lee | 18,614 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Leon | 18,940 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Liberty | 87,600 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Limestone | 25,576 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Lipscomb | 3,685 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Live Oak | 11,793 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Llano | 21,031 | 1 | 21,031.0 | 4.8 | 19 |
| Loving | 80 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Lubbock | 306,336 | 7 | 43,762.3 | 2.3 | 47 |
| Lynn | 6,177 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| McCulloch | 8,872 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| McLennan | 250,941 | 3 | 83,647.0 | 1.2 | 65 |
| McMullen | 763 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Madison | 15,245 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Marion | 11,285 | 1 | 11,285.0 | 8.9 | 6 |
| Martin | 5,431 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Mason | 4,179 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Matagorda | 39,147 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Maverick | 61,696 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Medina | 54,632 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Menard | 2,394 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Midland | 154,516 | 2 | 77,258.0 | 1.3 | 63 |
| Milam | 26,371 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Mills | 5,160 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Mitchell | 9,917 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Montague | 21,132 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Montgomery | 613,169 | 8 | 76,646.1 | 1.3 | 62 |
| Moore | 25,030 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Morris | 13,733 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Motley | 1,208 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Nacogdoches | 71,465 | 1 | 71,465.0 | 1.4 | 58 |
| Navarro | 53,811 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Newton | 14,374 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Nolan | 15,985 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Nueces | 369,142 | 5 | 73,828.4 | 1.4 | 60 |
| Ochiltree | 12,190 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Oldham | 2,192 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Orange | 86,836 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Palo Pinto | 30,988 | 1 | 30,988.0 | 3.2 | 33 |
| Panola | 25,541 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Parker | 149,616 | 2 | 74,808.0 | 1.3 | 61 |
| Parmer | 11,909 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Pecos | 16,793 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Polk | 50,600 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Potter | 131,699 | 10 | 13,169.9 | 7.6 | 8 |
| Presidio | 8,550 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Rains | 12,678 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Randall | 137,390 | 1 | 137,390.0 | 0.7 | 70 |
| Reagan | 3,807 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Real | 3,430 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Red River | 13,388 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Reeves | 14,720 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Refugio | 7,498 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Roberts | 992 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Robertson | 18,964 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Rockwall | 107,563 | 1 | 107,563.0 | 0.9 | 68 |
| Runnels | 10,893 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Rusk | 61,213 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Sabine | 11,909 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| San Augustine | 9,264 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| San Jacinto | 31,199 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| San Patricio | 67,731 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| San Saba | 6,394 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Schleicher | 3,835 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Scurry | 18,492 | 1 | 18,492.0 | 5.4 | 15 |
| Shackelford | 3,654 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Shelby | 28,013 | 1 | 28,013.0 | 3.6 | 29 |
| Sherman | 3,341 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Smith | 235,940 | 7 | 33,705.7 | 3.0 | 37 |
| Somervell | 10,054 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Starr | 67,425 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Stephens | 10,161 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Sterling | 1,207 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Stonewall | 1,506 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Sutton | 4,552 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Swisher | 8,153 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Tarrant | 2,057,926 | 82 | 25,096.7 | 4.0 | 22 |
| Taylor | 137,300 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Terrell | 1,039 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Terry | 13,209 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Throckmorton | 1,647 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Titus | 36,614 | 1 | 36,614.0 | 2.7 | 38 |
| Tom Green | 114,017 | 26 | 4,385.3 | 22.8 | 1 |
| Travis | 1,223,816 | 208 | 5,883.7 | 17.0 | 3 |
| Trinity | 16,236 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Tyler | 22,481 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Upshur | 43,948 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Upton | 3,781 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Uvalde | 28,161 | 1 | 28,161.0 | 3.6 | 30 |
| Val Verde | 52,475 | 1 | 52,475.0 | 1.9 | 51 |
| Van Zandt | 57,106 | 1 | 57,106.0 | 1.8 | 53 |
| Victoria | 91,624 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Walker | 71,717 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Waller | 54,675 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Ward | 11,111 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Washington | 36,917 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Webb | 303,060 | 2 | 151,530.0 | 0.7 | 72 |
| Wharton | 42,884 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Wheeler | 5,800 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Wichita | 132,912 | 10 | 13,291.2 | 7.5 | 9 |
| Wilbarger | 14,614 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Willacy | 25,859 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Williamson | 585,398 | 38 | 15,405.2 | 6.5 | 13 |
| Wilson | 54,265 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Winkler | 8,116 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Wise | 71,081 | 1 | 71,081.0 | 1.4 | 57 |
| Wood | 47,309 | 1 | 47,309.0 | 2.1 | 50 |
| Yoakum | 9,197 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Young | 19,623 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Zapata | 16,440 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Zavala | 12,670 | 0 | - | 0.0 | - |
| Texas Total | 29,366,479 | 1,098 | 26,745.4 | 3.7 | - |
| CNSs w/o Texas RN license | - | 88 | - | - | - |