Lufkin, Texas

Lufkin population, 2020 to 2024

Lufkin added 272 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +71. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 278th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Lufkin is 2.2 times that size.

Lufkin covers 34.21 square miles of land and 0.27 of water, for 1,006 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Lufkin is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lufkin is in

All of Lufkin's residents live in Angelina County, which had 88,094 residents in 2024. Lufkin holds 39.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lufkin

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lufkin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75901, 75903, 75904. 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 Lufkin is

The Census internal point of Lufkin is at 31.322900, -94.729000. Austin, the capital, is 192.8 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Huntsville, TX (49,500 people), 65.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tyler, TX, 76.6 miles away.

Daylight in Lufkin

At 31.32° N, Lufkin gets about 14 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lufkin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Hudson, 3.3 miles away, with 5,288 people.