McAllen, Texas

McAllen population, 2020 to 2024

McAllen added 6,381 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +1,518. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 192nd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so McAllen is 9.7 times that size.

McAllen covers 62.37 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 2,385 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so McAllen is denser than the typical town.

What county McAllen is in

All of McAllen's residents live in Hidalgo County, which had 914,820 residents in 2024. McAllen holds 16.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in McAllen

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap McAllen by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78501, 78503, 78504, 78557, 78573. 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 McAllen is

The Census internal point of McAllen is at 26.225000, -98.246100. Austin, the capital, is 281.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Brownsville, TX (191,967 people), 51.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 8.6 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 38 m (125 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in McAllen

At 26.23° N, McAllen gets about 13 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 17 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 McAllen daylight page.

Places near McAllen

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Palmhurst, 3.8 miles away, with 2,602 people.