Midland, Texas

Midland population, 2020 to 2024

Midland added 10,442 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.8%. In the latest year it moved by +4,199. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 145th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Midland is 9.4 times that size.

Midland covers 76.16 square miles of land and 0.17 of water, for 1,887 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Midland is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Midland spans

Midland crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 143,687 residents as follows; Midland County holds 100.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Midland

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Midland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79701, 79703, 79705, 79706, 79707. 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 Midland is

The Census internal point of Midland is at 32.024600, -102.113500. Austin, the capital, is 285.5 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lubbock, TX (272,086 people), 107.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Odessa, TX, 16.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 859 m (2,818 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Midland

At 32.02° N, Midland gets about 14 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 12 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 Midland daylight page.

Places near Midland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Odessa, 16.8 miles away, with 119,748 people.