Athens, Texas

Athens population, 2020 to 2024

Athens added 691 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.4%. In the latest year it moved by +43. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 179th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Athens is 88% of it.

Athens covers 17.85 square miles of land and 2.37 of water, for 761 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Athens is less dense than the typical town.

What county Athens is in

All of Athens's residents live in Henderson County, which had 87,467 residents in 2024. Athens holds 15.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Athens

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Athens by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75751, 75752. 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 Athens is

The Census internal point of Athens is at 32.202600, -95.830800. Austin, the capital, is 174.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tyler, TX (112,219 people), 31.7 miles away.

Daylight in Athens

At 32.20° N, Athens gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Athens

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Malakoff, 11.3 miles away, with 2,257 people.