Texas · Census place 4802188
Alto, Texas
Alto is a town in Cherokee County, Texas with an estimated 1,064 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 785th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,064
- #785 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- +3.5%
- +36 people
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 622 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Alto population, 2020 to 2024
Alto added 36 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +7.
Alto covers 1.71 square miles of land, for 622 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Alto is less dense than the typical town.
What county Alto is in
All of Alto's residents live in Cherokee County, which had 53,223 residents in 2024. Alto holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Alto
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Alto by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 75925. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.
Where Alto is
The Census internal point of Alto is at 31.651000, -95.070800. Austin, the capital, is 184.5 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rusk, TX (5,553 people), 11.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tyler, TX, 48.0 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 31.651000, -95.070800
- DMS
- 31°39'3.60"N 95°04'14.88"W
- UTM
- 15N 303645.3E 3503615.2N
- Geohash
- 9vskh9gs3
- Plus code
- 8636MW2H+CM
Daylight in Alto
At 31.65° N, Alto gets about 14 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Alto
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Rusk, 11.1 miles away, with 5,553 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Alto, TX?
1,064 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 36 (3.5%) from 1,028 in July 2020.
What county is Alto in?
Cherokee County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Alto?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 75925.
How far is Alto from Austin?
184.5 miles (297.0 km) in a straight line, heading WSW from Alto.
What is the nearest larger city to Alto?
Rusk, TX, with 5,553 residents, 11.1 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.