Cameron, Texas

Cameron population, 2020 to 2024

Cameron added 218 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.1%. In the latest year it moved by +31. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 201st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Cameron is 36% of it.

Cameron covers 5.24 square miles of land, for 1,055 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Cameron is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cameron is in

All of Cameron's residents live in Milam County, which had 26,159 residents in 2024. Cameron holds 21.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cameron

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cameron by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76520. 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 Cameron is

The Census internal point of Cameron is at 30.860800, -96.976200. Austin, the capital, is 60.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rockdale, TX (5,637 people), 14.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is College Station, TX, 44.6 miles away.

Daylight in Cameron

At 30.86° N, Cameron gets about 14 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cameron

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Rockdale, 14.3 miles away, with 5,637 people.