Mercedes, Texas

Mercedes population, 2020 to 2024

Mercedes added 1,268 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.8%. In the latest year it moved by +689. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 146th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Mercedes is 1.1 times that size.

Mercedes covers 11.80 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,486 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Mercedes is close to the typical town.

What county Mercedes is in

All of Mercedes's residents live in Hidalgo County, which had 914,820 residents in 2024. Mercedes holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mercedes

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mercedes by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78570. 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 Mercedes is

The Census internal point of Mercedes is at 26.153800, -97.912900. Austin, the capital, is 284.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Weslaco, TX (43,864 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 18.8 miles away.

Daylight in Mercedes

At 26.15° N, Mercedes 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.

Places near Mercedes

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Weslaco, 4.7 miles away, with 43,864 people.