Nacogdoches, Texas

Nacogdoches population, 2020 to 2024

Nacogdoches added 266 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -32. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 275th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Nacogdoches is 2.1 times that size.

Nacogdoches covers 27.61 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,173 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Nacogdoches is less dense than the typical town.

What county Nacogdoches is in

All of Nacogdoches's residents live in Nacogdoches County, which had 65,728 residents in 2024. Nacogdoches holds 49.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Nacogdoches

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Nacogdoches by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75961, 75962, 75964, 75965. 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 Nacogdoches is

The Census internal point of Nacogdoches is at 31.612400, -94.652000. Austin, the capital, is 205.0 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lufkin, TX (34,399 people), 20.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tyler, TX, 62.0 miles away.

Daylight in Nacogdoches

At 31.61° N, Nacogdoches 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 Nacogdoches

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Lufkin, 20.5 miles away, with 34,399 people.