Denton, Texas

Denton population, 2020 to 2024

Denton added 24,870 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +17.6%. In the latest year it moved by +6,775. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 78th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Denton is 10.8 times that size.

Denton covers 96.95 square miles of land and 1.41 of water, for 1,712 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Denton is close to the typical town.

What county Denton is in

All of Denton's residents live in Denton County, which had 1,045,120 residents in 2024. Denton holds 15.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Denton

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Denton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76201, 76203, 76205, 76207, 76208, 76209, 76210. 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 Denton is

The Census internal point of Denton is at 33.217400, -97.141300. Austin, the capital, is 206.4 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Frisco, TX (235,208 people), 18.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lewisville, TX, 15.0 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 205 m (673 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Denton

At 33.22° N, Denton gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 24 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 Denton daylight page.

Places near Denton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Krum, 5.8 miles away, with 6,799 people.