Texas · Census place 4853376

Odem, Texas

Odem is a city in San Patricio County, Texas with an estimated 2,292 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 567th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,292
#567 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+1.3%
+30 people
Land area
1.3 sq mi
Density
1,805 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Odem. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Odem population, 2020 to 2024

Odem added 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,256. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Odem covers 1.27 square miles of land, for 1,805 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Odem is denser than the typical town.

What county Odem is in

All of Odem's residents live in San Patricio County, which had 71,467 residents in 2024. Odem holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Odem

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Odem by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78370. 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 Odem is

The Census internal point of Odem is at 27.946200, -97.587500. Austin, the capital, is 161.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sinton, TX (5,648 people), 8.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Corpus Christi, TX, 28.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
27.946200, -97.587500
DMS
27°56'46.32"N 97°35'15.00"W
UTM
14N 638957.4E 3092045.5N
Geohash
9ufwgr6yq
Plus code
76V4WCW7+F2

Daylight in Odem

At 27.95° N, Odem gets about 13 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Odem

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Sinton, 8.2 miles away, with 5,648 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Odem, TX?

2,292 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 30 (1.3%) from 2,262 in July 2020.

What county is Odem in?

San Patricio County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Odem?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78370.

How far is Odem from Austin?

161.1 miles (259.3 km) in a straight line, heading N from Odem.

What is the nearest larger city to Odem?

Sinton, TX, with 5,648 residents, 8.2 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.