Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo population, 2020 to 2024

Amarillo added 3,162 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +995. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 255th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Amarillo is 13.3 times that size.

Amarillo covers 103.62 square miles of land and 1.56 of water, for 1,966 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Amarillo is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Amarillo spans

Amarillo crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 203,729 residents as follows; Randall County holds 51.6% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Amarillo

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Amarillo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79101, 79102, 79103, 79104, 79106, 79107, 79109, 79110, 79111, 79118, 79121. 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 Amarillo is

The Census internal point of Amarillo is at 35.198100, -101.833100. Austin, the capital, is 415.0 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lubbock, TX (272,086 people), 113.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 1,118 m (3,668 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Amarillo

At 35.20° N, Amarillo gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Amarillo daylight page.

Places near Amarillo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Canyon, 15.2 miles away, with 16,457 people.