Texas · Census place 4849932

Muenster, Texas

Muenster is a city in Cooke County, Texas with an estimated 1,725 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 654th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,725
#654 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+11.9%
+183 people
Land area
2.6 sq mi
+ 0.02 sq mi water
Density
653 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Muenster. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

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Muenster population, 2020 to 2024

Muenster added 183 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.9%. In the latest year it moved by +62.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,536. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Muenster covers 2.64 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 653 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Muenster is less dense than the typical town.

What county Muenster is in

All of Muenster's residents live in Cooke County, which had 44,258 residents in 2024. Muenster holds 3.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Muenster

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Muenster by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76252. 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 Muenster is

The Census internal point of Muenster is at 33.653000, -97.375700. Austin, the capital, is 234.4 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gainesville, TX (18,295 people), 13.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Denton, TX, 33.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
33.653000, -97.375700
DMS
33°39'10.80"N 97°22'32.52"W
UTM
14N 650615.6E 3724865.7N
Geohash
9vfz2nm4v
Plus code
8654MJ3F+5P

Daylight in Muenster

At 33.65° N, Muenster gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Muenster

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Lindsay, 9.0 miles away, with 1,264 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Muenster, TX?

1,725 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 183 (11.9%) from 1,542 in July 2020.

What county is Muenster in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Muenster?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 76252.

How far is Muenster from Austin?

234.4 miles (377.3 km) in a straight line, heading S from Muenster.

What is the nearest larger city to Muenster?

Gainesville, TX, with 18,295 residents, 13.1 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.