Lamesa, Texas

Lamesa population, 2020 to 2024

Lamesa lost 568 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -6.5%. In the latest year it moved by -120. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 380th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Lamesa is 53% of it.

Lamesa covers 5.11 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,587 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Lamesa is close to the typical town.

What county Lamesa is in

All of Lamesa's residents live in Dawson County, which had 11,758 residents in 2024. Lamesa holds 69.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lamesa

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lamesa by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79331. 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 Lamesa is

The Census internal point of Lamesa is at 32.733300, -101.953800. Austin, the capital, is 300.8 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Brownfield, TX (8,682 people), 35.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Midland, TX, 49.8 miles away.

Daylight in Lamesa

At 32.73° N, Lamesa gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lamesa

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Tahoka, 31.1 miles away, with 2,507 people.