Carthage, Texas

Carthage population, 2020 to 2024

Carthage added 94 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +40. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 258th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Carthage is 43% of it.

Carthage covers 10.66 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 624 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Carthage is less dense than the typical town.

What county Carthage is in

All of Carthage's residents live in Panola County, which had 23,022 residents in 2024. Carthage holds 28.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carthage

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Carthage by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75633. 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 Carthage is

The Census internal point of Carthage is at 32.152000, -94.337100. Austin, the capital, is 239.3 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Marshall, TX (24,263 people), 26.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Shreveport, LA, 38.5 miles away.

Daylight in Carthage

At 32.15° N, Carthage gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carthage

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Tenaha, 15.4 miles away, with 1,002 people.