La Feria, Texas

La Feria population, 2020 to 2024

La Feria added 167 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +205. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 228th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so La Feria is 46% of it.

La Feria covers 4.39 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,603 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so La Feria is close to the typical town.

What county La Feria is in

All of La Feria's residents live in Cameron County, which had 431,874 residents in 2024. La Feria holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in La Feria

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps La Feria by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78559. 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 La Feria is

The Census internal point of La Feria is at 26.155300, -97.825000. Austin, the capital, is 284.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mercedes, TX (17,535 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 23.2 miles away.

Daylight in La Feria

At 26.16° N, La Feria gets about 13 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near La Feria

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Mercedes, 5.5 miles away, with 17,535 people.