Borger, Texas

Borger population, 2020 to 2024

Borger lost 630 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.0%. In the latest year it moved by -186. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 377th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Borger is 77% of it.

Borger covers 9.03 square miles of land, for 1,317 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Borger is less dense than the typical town.

What county Borger is in

All of Borger's residents live in Hutchinson County, which had 19,721 residents in 2024. Borger holds 60.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Borger

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Borger by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79007. 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 Borger is

The Census internal point of Borger is at 35.659400, -101.402400. Austin, the capital, is 428.3 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pampa, TX (16,487 people), 25.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Amarillo, TX, 40.1 miles away.

Daylight in Borger

At 35.66° N, Borger gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Borger

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Fritch, 10.9 miles away, with 1,763 people.