Brownsville, Texas

Brownsville population, 2020 to 2024

Brownsville added 5,319 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +1,395. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 215th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Brownsville is 12.5 times that size.

Brownsville covers 133.39 square miles of land and 13.74 of water, for 1,439 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Brownsville is close to the typical town.

What county Brownsville is in

All of Brownsville's residents live in Cameron County, which had 431,874 residents in 2024. Brownsville holds 44.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brownsville

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Brownsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78520, 78521, 78526, 78566, 78575, 78578. 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 Brownsville is

The Census internal point of Brownsville is at 25.995700, -97.450800. Austin, the capital, is 296.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Corpus Christi, TX (317,317 people), 122.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 49.0 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 3 m (10 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Brownsville

At 26.00° N, Brownsville gets about 13 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 31 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 15 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 Brownsville daylight page.

Places near Brownsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Los Fresnos, 5.9 miles away, with 8,563 people.