Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi population, 2020 to 2024

Corpus Christi lost 968 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +339. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 316th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Corpus Christi is 20.7 times that size.

Corpus Christi covers 166.43 square miles of land and 328.70 of water, for 1,907 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Corpus Christi is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Corpus Christi spans

Corpus Christi crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 317,317 residents as follows; Nueces County holds 100.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Corpus Christi

19 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Corpus Christi by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78373, 78401, 78402, 78404, 78405, 78406, 78407, 78408, 78409, 78410, 78411, 78412, 78413, 78414, 78415, 78416, 78417, 78418, 78419. 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 Corpus Christi is

The Census internal point of Corpus Christi is at 27.754300, -97.173400. Austin, the capital, is 177.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Antonio, TX (1,526,656 people), 143.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 116.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 0 m (0 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Corpus Christi

At 27.75° N, Corpus Christi gets about 13 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Corpus Christi daylight page.

Places near Corpus Christi

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Port Aransas, 6.9 miles away, with 3,616 people.