Texas · Census place 4816204

Combes, Texas

Combes is a town in Cameron County, Texas with an estimated 3,259 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 473rd largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,259
#473 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+3.4%
+108 people
Land area
3.3 sq mi
+ 0.04 sq mi water
Density
1,003 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Combes. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Combes population, 2020 to 2024

Combes added 108 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +61.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,143. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Combes covers 3.25 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,003 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Combes is less dense than the typical town.

What county Combes is in

All of Combes's residents live in Cameron County, which had 431,874 residents in 2024. Combes holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Combes

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Combes by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 78535, 78550, 78552. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Combes is

The Census internal point of Combes is at 26.246500, -97.726800. Austin, the capital, is 278.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Primera, TX (5,449 people), 2.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Brownsville, TX, 24.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
26.246500, -97.726800
DMS
26°14'47.40"N 97°43'36.48"W
UTM
14N 627158.2E 2903607.5N
Geohash
9udt24j8b
Plus code
76R467WF+J7

Daylight in Combes

At 26.25° N, Combes gets about 13 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Combes

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Primera, 2.2 miles away, with 5,449 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Combes, TX?

3,259 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 108 (3.4%) from 3,151 in July 2020.

What county is Combes in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Combes?

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 78535, 78550, 78552.

How far is Combes from Austin?

278.3 miles (447.8 km) in a straight line, heading N from Combes.

What is the nearest larger city to Combes?

Primera, TX, with 5,449 residents, 2.2 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.