Texas · Census place 4801576

Alamo, Texas

Alamo is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas with an estimated 20,694 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 150th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
20,694
#150 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+5.2%
+1,028 people
Land area
7.7 sq mi
Density
2,705 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Alamo. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Alamo population, 2020 to 2024

Alamo added 1,028 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by +114. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 181st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Alamo is 1.3 times that size.

19.7k202020.0k202120.3k202220.6k202320.7k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 19,516. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Alamo covers 7.65 square miles of land, for 2,705 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Alamo is denser than the typical town.

What county Alamo is in

All of Alamo's residents live in Hidalgo County, which had 914,820 residents in 2024. Alamo holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alamo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Alamo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78516. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Alamo is

The Census internal point of Alamo is at 26.181000, -98.117500. Austin, the capital, is 283.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Juan, TX (37,341 people), 2.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is McAllen, TX, 8.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
26.181000, -98.117500
DMS
26°10'51.60"N 98°07'3.00"W
UTM
14N 588184.9E 2896028.4N
Geohash
9udhzq152
Plus code
76R35VJM+C2

Daylight in Alamo

At 26.18° N, Alamo gets about 13 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alamo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is San Juan, 2.2 miles away, with 37,341 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Alamo, TX?

20,694 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 1,028 (5.2%) from 19,666 in July 2020.

What county is Alamo in?

Hidalgo County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Alamo?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78516.

How far is Alamo from Austin?

283.7 miles (456.6 km) in a straight line, heading N from Alamo.

What is the nearest larger city to Alamo?

San Juan, TX, with 37,341 residents, 2.2 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.