Texas · Census place 4815472

Clifton, Texas

Clifton is a city in Bosque County, Texas with an estimated 3,535 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 460th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,535
#460 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+1.9%
+67 people
Land area
2.1 sq mi
Density
1,724 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Clifton. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

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Clifton population, 2020 to 2024

Clifton added 67 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

3,46820203,49020213,49420223,54320233,5352024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,469. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Clifton covers 2.05 square miles of land, for 1,724 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Clifton is denser than the typical town.

What county Clifton is in

All of Clifton's residents live in Bosque County, which had 19,013 residents in 2024. Clifton holds 18.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clifton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Clifton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76634. 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 Clifton is

The Census internal point of Clifton is at 31.782000, -97.581900. Austin, the capital, is 104.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gatesville, TX (16,388 people), 25.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Waco, TX, 27.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
31.782000, -97.581900
DMS
31°46'55.20"N 97°34'54.84"W
UTM
14N 634269.2E 3517147.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
8634QCJ9+R6

Daylight in Clifton

At 31.78° N, Clifton gets about 14 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Clifton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Meridian, 10.7 miles away, with 1,423 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Clifton, TX?

3,535 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 67 (1.9%) from 3,468 in July 2020.

What county is Clifton in?

Bosque County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Clifton?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 76634.

How far is Clifton from Austin?

104.6 miles (168.4 km) in a straight line, heading S from Clifton.

What is the nearest larger city to Clifton?

Gatesville, TX, with 16,388 residents, 25.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.