Laredo, Texas

Laredo population, 2020 to 2024

Laredo added 5,765 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +2,338. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 236th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Laredo is 17.0 times that size.

Laredo covers 109.09 square miles of land and 1.45 of water, for 2,395 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Laredo is denser than the typical town.

What county Laredo is in

All of Laredo's residents live in Webb County, which had 272,823 residents in 2024. Laredo holds 95.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Laredo

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Laredo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78040, 78041, 78043, 78045, 78046. 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 Laredo is

The Census internal point of Laredo is at 27.560400, -99.489200. Austin, the capital, is 215.3 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Corpus Christi, TX (317,317 people), 142.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 118.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 147 m (482 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Laredo

At 27.56° N, Laredo gets about 13 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Laredo daylight page.

Places near Laredo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Rio Bravo, 13.5 miles away, with 4,436 people.