Hillsboro, Texas

Hillsboro population, 2020 to 2024

Hillsboro added 684 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.3%. In the latest year it moved by +157. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 137th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Hillsboro is 58% of it.

Hillsboro covers 10.98 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 809 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Hillsboro is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hillsboro is in

All of Hillsboro's residents live in Hill County, which had 38,771 residents in 2024. Hillsboro holds 22.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hillsboro

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hillsboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76645. 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 Hillsboro is

The Census internal point of Hillsboro is at 32.007800, -97.115700. Austin, the capital, is 125.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bellmead, TX (10,607 people), 28.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Waco, TX, 31.4 miles away.

Daylight in Hillsboro

At 32.01° N, Hillsboro 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 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hillsboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Itasca, 10.6 miles away, with 1,885 people.