Marlin, Texas

Marlin population, 2020 to 2024

Marlin added 124 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +7. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 235th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Marlin is 36% of it.

Marlin covers 4.52 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,233 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Marlin is less dense than the typical town.

What county Marlin is in

All of Marlin's residents live in Falls County, which had 17,752 residents in 2024. Marlin holds 31.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Marlin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Marlin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76661. 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 Marlin is

The Census internal point of Marlin is at 31.308000, -96.893200. Austin, the capital, is 87.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Robinson, TX (12,986 people), 16.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Waco, TX, 24.5 miles away.

Daylight in Marlin

At 31.31° N, Marlin 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 Marlin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Riesel, 11.9 miles away, with 1,063 people.