Penitas, Texas

Penitas population, 2020 to 2024

Penitas added 118 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +174. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 245th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Penitas is 43% of it.

Penitas covers 9.37 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 701 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Penitas is less dense than the typical town.

What county Penitas is in

All of Penitas's residents live in Hidalgo County, which had 914,820 residents in 2024. Penitas holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Penitas

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Penitas by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78576. 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 Penitas is

The Census internal point of Penitas is at 26.258300, -98.438600. Austin, the capital, is 280.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Palmview, TX (16,030 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is McAllen, TX, 12.2 miles away.

Daylight in Penitas

At 26.26° N, Penitas gets about 13 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Penitas

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is La Joya, 2.3 miles away, with 5,129 people.