Hico, Texas

Hico population, 2020 to 2024

Hico added 143 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.7%. In the latest year it moved by +31.

Hico covers 1.82 square miles of land, for 811 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Hico is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hico is in

All of Hico's residents live in Hamilton County, which had 8,644 residents in 2024. Hico holds 17.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hico

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hico by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76457. 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 Hico is

The Census internal point of Hico is at 31.985100, -98.028400. Austin, the capital, is 119.4 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Stephenville, TX (22,147 people), 19.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Waco, TX, 57.4 miles away.

Daylight in Hico

At 31.99° N, Hico gets about 14 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hico

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Stephenville, 19.4 miles away, with 22,147 people.