Paris, Texas

Paris population, 2020 to 2024

Paris added 533 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +96. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 241st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Paris is 1.6 times that size.

Paris covers 35.19 square miles of land and 1.88 of water, for 711 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Paris is less dense than the typical town.

What county Paris is in

All of Paris's residents live in Lamar County, which had 51,249 residents in 2024. Paris holds 48.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Paris

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Paris by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75460, 75462. 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 Paris is

The Census internal point of Paris is at 33.668900, -95.546600. Austin, the capital, is 267.5 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenville, TX (34,355 people), 50.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is McKinney, TX, 72.1 miles away.

Daylight in Paris

At 33.67° N, Paris gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Paris

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Reno, 3.8 miles away, with 3,549 people.