Texas · Census place 4849800

Mount Pleasant, Texas

Mount Pleasant is a city in Titus County, Texas with an estimated 16,238 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 184th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
16,238
#184 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+0.7%
+114 people
Land area
20.3 sq mi
+ 0.80 sq mi water
Density
799 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Mount Pleasant. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Mount Pleasant population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Pleasant added 114 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +146. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 283rd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Mount Pleasant is 1.1 times that size.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 16,099. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Mount Pleasant covers 20.33 square miles of land and 0.80 of water, for 799 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Mount Pleasant is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mount Pleasant is in

All of Mount Pleasant's residents live in Titus County, which had 31,547 residents in 2024. Mount Pleasant holds 51.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Pleasant

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Pleasant by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75455. 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 Mount Pleasant is

The Census internal point of Mount Pleasant is at 33.158200, -94.974500. Austin, the capital, is 257.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sulphur Springs, TX (16,891 people), 37.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tyler, TX, 61.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
33.158200, -94.974500
DMS
33°09'29.52"N 94°58'28.20"W
UTM
15N 315865.6E 3670561.0N
Geohash
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Plus code
8657525G+75

Daylight in Mount Pleasant

At 33.16° N, Mount Pleasant gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Pleasant

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Pittsburg, 11.0 miles away, with 4,552 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Mount Pleasant, TX?

16,238 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 114 (0.7%) from 16,124 in July 2020.

What county is Mount Pleasant in?

Titus County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Mount Pleasant?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 75455.

How far is Mount Pleasant from Austin?

257.1 miles (413.8 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Mount Pleasant.

What is the nearest larger city to Mount Pleasant?

Sulphur Springs, TX, with 16,891 residents, 37.0 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.