Texas · Census place 4831964

Hamlin, Texas

Hamlin is a city in Jones County, Texas with an estimated 1,875 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 631st largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,875
#631 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+2.6%
+47 people
Land area
5.3 sq mi
Density
354 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Hamlin. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Hamlin population, 2020 to 2024

Hamlin added 47 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +4.

1,82820201,84720211,85420221,87120231,8752024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,829. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Hamlin covers 5.29 square miles of land, for 354 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Hamlin is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hamlin is in

All of Hamlin's residents live in Jones County, which had 20,850 residents in 2024. Hamlin holds 9.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hamlin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hamlin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79520. 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 Hamlin is

The Census internal point of Hamlin is at 32.890000, -100.132500. Austin, the capital, is 229.1 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Anson, TX (2,544 people), 16.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Abilene, TX, 37.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
32.890000, -100.132500
DMS
32°53'24.00"N 100°07'57.00"W
UTM
14N 394072.6E 3639661.0N
Geohash
9vbg17mwp
Plus code
854XVVR9+22

Daylight in Hamlin

At 32.89° N, Hamlin gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hamlin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Anson, 16.6 miles away, with 2,544 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Hamlin, TX?

1,875 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 47 (2.6%) from 1,828 in July 2020.

What county is Hamlin in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Hamlin?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 79520.

How far is Hamlin from Austin?

229.1 miles (368.7 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Hamlin.

What is the nearest larger city to Hamlin?

Anson, TX, with 2,544 residents, 16.6 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.