Plains, Texas

Plains population, 2020 to 2024

Plains added 4 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +11.

Plains covers 1.50 square miles of land, for 905 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Plains is less dense than the typical town.

What county Plains is in

All of Plains's residents live in Yoakum County, which had 7,581 residents in 2024. Plains holds 17.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Plains

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Plains by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 79355. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Plains is

The Census internal point of Plains is at 33.188300, -102.821500. Austin, the capital, is 360.1 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Denver City, TX (4,366 people), 15.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lubbock, TX, 59.7 miles away.

Daylight in Plains

At 33.19° N, Plains gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Plains

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Denver City, 15.2 miles away, with 4,366 people.