Albany, Texas

Albany population, 2020 to 2024

Albany added 31 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -23.

Albany covers 1.57 square miles of land, for 1,206 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Albany is less dense than the typical town.

What county Albany is in

All of Albany's residents live in Shackelford County, which had 3,169 residents in 2024. Albany holds 59.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Albany

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Albany by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76430. 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 Albany is

The Census internal point of Albany is at 32.727300, -99.295700. Austin, the capital, is 192.7 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Breckenridge, TX (5,190 people), 22.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Abilene, TX, 31.9 miles away.

Daylight in Albany

At 32.73° N, Albany gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Albany

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Breckenridge, 22.3 miles away, with 5,190 people.