Parker, Texas

Parker population, 2020 to 2024

Parker added 805 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.6%. In the latest year it moved by +97. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 91st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Parker is 41% of it.

Parker covers 8.50 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 745 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Parker is less dense than the typical town.

What county Parker is in

All of Parker's residents live in Collin County, which had 1,254,658 residents in 2024. Parker holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Parker

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Parker by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75002. 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 Parker is

The Census internal point of Parker is at 33.060800, -96.625200. Austin, the capital, is 203.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Murphy, TX (21,109 people), 3.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allen, TX, 4.3 miles away.

Daylight in Parker

At 33.06° N, Parker gets about 14 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Parker

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Murphy, 3.2 miles away, with 21,109 people.