Nixon, Texas

Nixon population, 2020 to 2024

Nixon added 32 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +0.

Nixon covers 1.56 square miles of land, for 1,531 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Nixon is close to the typical town.

What county Nixon is in

All of Nixon's residents live in Gonzales County, which had 20,040 residents in 2024. Nixon holds 11.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Nixon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Nixon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78140. 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 Nixon is

The Census internal point of Nixon is at 29.269700, -97.765900. Austin, the capital, is 69.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Seguin, TX (38,789 people), 25.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Braunfels, TX, 36.4 miles away.

Daylight in Nixon

At 29.27° N, Nixon gets about 14 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Nixon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Stockdale, 12.2 miles away, with 1,488 people.