Big Spring, Texas

Big Spring population, 2020 to 2024

Big Spring lost 3,728 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -14.2%. In the latest year it moved by +57. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 383rd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Big Spring is 1.5 times that size.

Big Spring covers 19.15 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,177 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Big Spring is less dense than the typical town.

What county Big Spring is in

All of Big Spring's residents live in Howard County, which had 30,833 residents in 2024. Big Spring holds 73.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Big Spring

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Big Spring by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79720, 79721. 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 Big Spring is

The Census internal point of Big Spring is at 32.238300, -101.485700. Austin, the capital, is 259.5 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Midland, TX (143,687 people), 39.6 miles away.

Daylight in Big Spring

At 32.24° N, Big Spring 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 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Big Spring

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Stanton, 19.4 miles away, with 2,629 people.