Texas · Census place 4808872
Blue Ridge, Texas
Blue Ridge is a city in Collin County, Texas with an estimated 1,248 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 747th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,248
- #747 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- +5.7%
- +67 people
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 990 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Blue Ridge population, 2020 to 2024
Blue Ridge added 67 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.7%. In the latest year it moved by +37.
Blue Ridge covers 1.26 square miles of land, for 990 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Blue Ridge is less dense than the typical town.
What county Blue Ridge is in
All of Blue Ridge's residents live in Collin County, which had 1,254,658 residents in 2024. Blue Ridge holds 0.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Blue Ridge
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Blue Ridge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75424. 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 Blue Ridge is
The Census internal point of Blue Ridge is at 33.298400, -96.398800. Austin, the capital, is 223.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Melissa, TX (26,194 people), 9.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is McKinney, TX, 16.7 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 33.298400, -96.398800
- DMS
- 33°17'54.24"N 96°23'55.68"W
- UTM
- 14N 742205.3E 3687388.0N
- Geohash
- 9vgmqmu91
- Plus code
- 86557JX2+9F
Daylight in Blue Ridge
At 33.30° N, Blue Ridge gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Blue Ridge
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Melissa, 9.2 miles away, with 26,194 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Blue Ridge, TX?
1,248 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 67 (5.7%) from 1,181 in July 2020.
What county is Blue Ridge in?
Collin County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Blue Ridge?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 75424.
How far is Blue Ridge from Austin?
223.3 miles (359.4 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Blue Ridge.
What is the nearest larger city to Blue Ridge?
Melissa, TX, with 26,194 residents, 9.2 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.