Mesquite, Texas

Mesquite population, 2020 to 2024

Mesquite added 503 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +1,114. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 294th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Mesquite is 9.8 times that size.

Mesquite covers 49.10 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 3,058 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Mesquite is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Mesquite spans

Mesquite crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 150,140 residents as follows; Dallas County holds 99.9% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mesquite

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mesquite by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75126, 75149, 75150, 75181. 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 Mesquite is

The Census internal point of Mesquite is at 32.759600, -96.584200. Austin, the capital, is 184.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Garland, TX (250,431 people), 10.7 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 153 m (502 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Mesquite

At 32.76° N, Mesquite gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 19 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 Mesquite daylight page.

Places near Mesquite

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Sunnyvale, 3.2 miles away, with 8,839 people.