Texas · Census place 4820884

Donna, Texas

Donna is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas with an estimated 16,876 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 177th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
16,876
#177 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+0.4%
+69 people
Land area
8.3 sq mi
Density
2,036 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Donna. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Donna population, 2020 to 2024

Donna added 69 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by -2. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 291st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Donna is 1.1 times that size.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 16,810. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Donna covers 8.29 square miles of land, for 2,036 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Donna is denser than the typical town.

What county Donna is in

All of Donna's residents live in Hidalgo County, which had 914,820 residents in 2024. Donna holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Donna

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Donna by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78537. 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 Donna is

The Census internal point of Donna is at 26.161100, -98.038900. Austin, the capital, is 284.8 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Weslaco, TX (43,864 people), 3.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 13.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
26.161100, -98.038900
DMS
26°09'39.96"N 98°02'20.04"W
UTM
14N 596055.8E 2893880.1N
Geohash
9udkc46r2
Plus code
76R35X66+CC

Daylight in Donna

At 26.16° N, Donna 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 Donna

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Weslaco, 3.2 miles away, with 43,864 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Donna, TX?

16,876 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 69 (0.4%) from 16,807 in July 2020.

What county is Donna in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Donna?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78537.

How far is Donna from Austin?

284.8 miles (458.3 km) in a straight line, heading N from Donna.

What is the nearest larger city to Donna?

Weslaco, TX, with 43,864 residents, 3.2 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.