Texas · Census place 4801852

Alice, Texas

Alice is a city in Jim Wells County, Texas with an estimated 17,595 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 168th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
17,595
#168 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
-1.5%
-263 people
Land area
12.0 sq mi
+ 0.59 sq mi water
Density
1,467 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Alice. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Alice population, 2020 to 2024

Alice lost 263 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -24. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 344th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Alice is 1.1 times that size.

17.9k202017.8k202117.7k202217.6k202317.6k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 17,878. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Alice covers 11.99 square miles of land and 0.59 of water, for 1,467 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Alice is close to the typical town.

What county Alice is in

All of Alice's residents live in Jim Wells County, which had 38,886 residents in 2024. Alice holds 45.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Alice

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Alice by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78332. 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 Alice is

The Census internal point of Alice is at 27.755600, -98.065800. Austin, the capital, is 175.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kingsville, TX (24,884 people), 21.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Corpus Christi, TX, 54.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
27.755600, -98.065800
DMS
27°45'20.16"N 98°03'56.88"W
UTM
14N 592061.6E 3070479.0N
Geohash
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Plus code
76V3QW4M+6M

Daylight in Alice

At 27.76° N, Alice gets about 13 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Alice

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is San Diego, 10.6 miles away, with 3,620 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Alice, TX?

17,595 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 263 (1.5%) from 17,858 in July 2020.

What county is Alice in?

Jim Wells County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Alice?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78332.

How far is Alice from Austin?

175.1 miles (281.8 km) in a straight line, heading N from Alice.

What is the nearest larger city to Alice?

Kingsville, TX, with 24,884 residents, 21.1 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.