Texas · Census place 4822905
El Cenizo, Texas
El Cenizo is a city in Webb County, Texas with an estimated 2,433 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 546th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,433
- #546 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- -3.8%
- -96 people
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- + 0.02 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,679 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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El Cenizo population, 2020 to 2024
El Cenizo lost 96 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.8%. In the latest year it moved by -18.
El Cenizo covers 0.52 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 4,679 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so El Cenizo is denser than the typical town.
What county El Cenizo is in
All of El Cenizo's residents live in Webb County, which had 272,823 residents in 2024. El Cenizo holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in El Cenizo
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps El Cenizo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78046. 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 El Cenizo is
The Census internal point of El Cenizo is at 27.331700, -99.501300. Austin, the capital, is 229.6 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rio Bravo, TX (4,436 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Laredo, TX, 15.8 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 27.331700, -99.501300
- DMS
- 27°19'54.12"N 99°30'4.68"W
- UTM
- 14N 450409.8E 3023274.5N
- Geohash
- 9uc5rz96e
- Plus code
- 76V28FJX+MF
Daylight in El Cenizo
At 27.33° N, El Cenizo gets about 13 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near El Cenizo
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Rio Bravo, 2.5 miles away, with 4,436 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of El Cenizo, TX?
2,433 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 96 (3.8%) from 2,529 in July 2020.
What county is El Cenizo in?
Webb County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover El Cenizo?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78046.
How far is El Cenizo from Austin?
229.6 miles (369.4 km) in a straight line, heading NNE from El Cenizo.
What is the nearest larger city to El Cenizo?
Rio Bravo, TX, with 4,436 residents, 2.5 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.