Texas · Census place 4818092

Cuero, Texas

Cuero is a city in DeWitt County, Texas with an estimated 8,215 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 288th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
8,215
#288 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+0.8%
+66 people
Land area
6.6 sq mi
+ 0.02 sq mi water
Density
1,252 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Cuero. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Cuero population, 2020 to 2024

Cuero added 66 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +14. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 277th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Cuero is 54% of it.

8,14920208,16320218,11220228,20120238,2152024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 8,144. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Cuero covers 6.56 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,252 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Cuero is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cuero is in

All of Cuero's residents live in DeWitt County, which had 20,252 residents in 2024. Cuero holds 40.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cuero

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cuero by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77954. 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 Cuero is

The Census internal point of Cuero is at 29.102700, -97.287100. Austin, the capital, is 85.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Victoria, TX (66,020 people), 26.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Braunfels, TX, 64.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
29.102700, -97.287100
DMS
29°06'9.72"N 97°17'13.56"W
UTM
14N 666684.3E 3220576.1N
Geohash
9v4vd1vxw
Plus code
76X44P37+35

Daylight in Cuero

At 29.10° N, Cuero gets about 14 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cuero

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Yorktown, 15.6 miles away, with 1,785 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Cuero, TX?

8,215 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 66 (0.8%) from 8,149 in July 2020.

What county is Cuero in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Cuero?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 77954.

How far is Cuero from Austin?

85.4 miles (137.4 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Cuero.

What is the nearest larger city to Cuero?

Victoria, TX, with 66,020 residents, 26.3 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.