Canyon, Texas

Canyon population, 2020 to 2024

Canyon added 1,535 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.3%. In the latest year it moved by +289. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 121st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Canyon is 1.1 times that size.

Canyon covers 8.08 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,037 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Canyon is denser than the typical town.

What county Canyon is in

All of Canyon's residents live in Randall County, which had 150,547 residents in 2024. Canyon holds 10.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Canyon

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Canyon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79015, 79016. 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 Canyon is

The Census internal point of Canyon is at 34.990300, -101.919000. Austin, the capital, is 406.5 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Amarillo, TX (203,729 people), 15.2 miles away.

Daylight in Canyon

At 34.99° N, Canyon gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Canyon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Amarillo, 15.2 miles away, with 203,729 people.