Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock population, 2020 to 2024

Lubbock added 14,036 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.4%. In the latest year it moved by +4,033. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 176th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Lubbock is 17.7 times that size.

Lubbock covers 143.19 square miles of land and 1.32 of water, for 1,900 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Lubbock is denser than the typical town.

What county Lubbock is in

All of Lubbock's residents live in Lubbock County, which had 327,394 residents in 2024. Lubbock holds 83.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lubbock

15 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lubbock by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79401, 79402, 79403, 79404, 79406, 79407, 79410, 79411, 79412, 79413, 79414, 79415, 79416, 79423, 79424. 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 Lubbock is

The Census internal point of Lubbock is at 33.561900, -101.888900. Austin, the capital, is 332.8 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fort Worth, TX (1,008,106 people), 268.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Midland, TX, 107.0 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 988 m (3,241 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Lubbock

At 33.56° N, Lubbock gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 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 Lubbock daylight page.

Places near Lubbock

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Wolfforth, 7.6 miles away, with 7,982 people.