Kilgore, Texas

Kilgore population, 2020 to 2024

Kilgore added 212 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +35. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 254th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Kilgore is 89% of it.

Kilgore covers 18.61 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 730 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Kilgore is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Kilgore spans

Kilgore crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 13,583 residents as follows; Gregg County holds 75.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kilgore

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kilgore by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75662. 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 Kilgore is

The Census internal point of Kilgore is at 32.396700, -94.860000. Austin, the capital, is 224.5 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Longview, TX (83,668 people), 10.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tyler, TX, 26.6 miles away.

Daylight in Kilgore

At 32.40° N, Kilgore gets about 14 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kilgore

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is White Oak, 9.2 miles away, with 6,241 people.