Muleshoe, Texas

Muleshoe population, 2020 to 2024

Muleshoe added 114 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +132. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 237th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Muleshoe is 34% of it.

Muleshoe covers 3.43 square miles of land, for 1,521 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Muleshoe is close to the typical town.

What county Muleshoe is in

All of Muleshoe's residents live in Bailey County, which had 7,031 residents in 2024. Muleshoe holds 74.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Muleshoe

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Muleshoe by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79347. 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 Muleshoe is

The Census internal point of Muleshoe is at 34.229200, -102.728400. Austin, the capital, is 399.4 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clovis, NM (37,555 people), 30.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lubbock, TX, 66.7 miles away.

Daylight in Muleshoe

At 34.23° N, Muleshoe gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Muleshoe

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Farwell, 20.7 miles away, with 1,379 people.