Texas · Census place 4845228
Lyford, Texas
Lyford is a city in Willacy County, Texas with an estimated 2,209 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 575th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,209
- #575 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- -2.1%
- -48 people
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- + 0.06 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,262 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Lyford population, 2020 to 2024
Lyford lost 48 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -3.
Lyford covers 1.75 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,262 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Lyford is less dense than the typical town.
What county Lyford is in
All of Lyford's residents live in Willacy County, which had 20,027 residents in 2024. Lyford holds 11.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Lyford
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lyford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78569. 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 Lyford is
The Census internal point of Lyford is at 26.414600, -97.789300. Austin, the capital, is 266.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Raymondville, TX (10,107 people), 4.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 23.5 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 26.414600, -97.789300
- DMS
- 26°24'52.56"N 97°47'21.48"W
- UTM
- 14N 620741.0E 2922167.0N
- Geohash
- 9udqqb8h0
- Plus code
- 76R4C676+R7
Daylight in Lyford
At 26.41° N, Lyford gets about 13 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Lyford
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Raymondville, 4.3 miles away, with 10,107 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Lyford, TX?
2,209 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 48 (2.1%) from 2,257 in July 2020.
What county is Lyford in?
Willacy County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Lyford?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78569.
How far is Lyford from Austin?
266.7 miles (429.2 km) in a straight line, heading N from Lyford.
What is the nearest larger city to Lyford?
Raymondville, TX, with 10,107 residents, 4.3 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.