Crystal City, Texas

Crystal City population, 2020 to 2024

Crystal City lost 338 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.3%. In the latest year it moved by -94. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 379th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Crystal City is 39% of it.

Crystal City covers 3.67 square miles of land, for 1,637 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Crystal City is close to the typical town.

What county Crystal City is in

All of Crystal City's residents live in Zavala County, which had 9,209 residents in 2024. Crystal City holds 65.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Crystal City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Crystal City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78839. 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 Crystal City is

The Census internal point of Crystal City is at 28.690700, -99.827100. Austin, the capital, is 166.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Uvalde, TX (15,589 people), 36.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Laredo, TX, 80.8 miles away.

Daylight in Crystal City

At 28.69° N, Crystal City gets about 13 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Crystal City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Carrizo Springs, 11.6 miles away, with 4,586 people.