Pharr, Texas

Pharr population, 2020 to 2024

Pharr added 1,297 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +382. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 253rd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Pharr is 5.3 times that size.

Pharr covers 24.17 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 3,357 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Pharr is denser than the typical town.

What county Pharr is in

All of Pharr's residents live in Hidalgo County, which had 914,820 residents in 2024. Pharr holds 8.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pharr

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pharr by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78577. 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 Pharr is

The Census internal point of Pharr is at 26.163400, -98.193900. Austin, the capital, is 285.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is McAllen, TX (148,782 people), 5.3 miles away.

Daylight in Pharr

At 26.16° N, Pharr 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 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pharr

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is San Juan, 3.2 miles away, with 37,341 people.