Plainview, Texas

Plainview population, 2020 to 2024

Plainview lost 696 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.5%. In the latest year it moved by -63. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 373rd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Plainview is 1.3 times that size.

Plainview covers 13.90 square miles of land, for 1,398 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Plainview is less dense than the typical town.

What county Plainview is in

All of Plainview's residents live in Hale County, which had 31,953 residents in 2024. Plainview holds 60.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Plainview

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Plainview by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79072. 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 Plainview is

The Census internal point of Plainview is at 34.191100, -101.723500. Austin, the capital, is 356.9 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lubbock, TX (272,086 people), 44.5 miles away.

Daylight in Plainview

At 34.19° N, Plainview gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Plainview

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Hale Center, 11.1 miles away, with 2,000 people.