Childress, Texas

Childress population, 2020 to 2024

Childress lost 44 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -66. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 328th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Childress is 37% of it.

Childress covers 8.26 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 688 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Childress is less dense than the typical town.

What county Childress is in

All of Childress's residents live in Childress County, which had 6,679 residents in 2024. Childress holds 85.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Childress

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Childress by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79201. 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 Childress is

The Census internal point of Childress is at 34.435500, -100.282400. Austin, the capital, is 323.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Altus, OK (18,543 people), 57.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Amarillo, TX, 102.5 miles away.

Daylight in Childress

At 34.44° N, Childress gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Childress

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Memphis, 24.9 miles away, with 2,041 people.