Hondo, Texas

Hondo population, 2020 to 2024

Hondo added 553 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.6%. In the latest year it moved by +106. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 161st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Hondo is 58% of it.

Hondo covers 10.05 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 892 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Hondo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hondo is in

All of Hondo's residents live in Medina County, which had 55,619 residents in 2024. Hondo holds 16.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hondo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hondo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78861. 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 Hondo is

The Census internal point of Hondo is at 29.354200, -99.161800. Austin, the capital, is 106.3 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pearsall, TX (9,541 people), 32.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is San Antonio, TX, 39.1 miles away.

Daylight in Hondo

At 29.35° N, Hondo gets about 14 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hondo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Castroville, 18.5 miles away, with 3,201 people.