Monahans, Texas

Monahans population, 2020 to 2024

Monahans lost 516 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -6.6%. In the latest year it moved by +17. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 381st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Monahans is 48% of it.

Monahans covers 28.92 square miles of land, for 254 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Monahans is less dense than the typical town.

What county Monahans is in

All of Monahans's residents live in Ward County, which had 11,038 residents in 2024. Monahans holds 66.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Monahans

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Monahans by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79756, 79788. 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 Monahans is

The Census internal point of Monahans is at 31.655700, -103.083700. Austin, the capital, is 330.6 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Town of Pecos, TX (10,224 people), 31.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Odessa, TX, 46.0 miles away.

Daylight in Monahans

At 31.66° N, Monahans gets about 14 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Monahans

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Kermit, 13.7 miles away, with 5,909 people.