Poetry, Texas

Poetry population, 2020 to 2024

Poetry added 169 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.2%. In the latest year it moved by +39.

Poetry covers 4.05 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 385 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Poetry is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Poetry spans

Poetry crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 1,559 residents as follows; Hunt County holds 67.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Poetry

No ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps Poetry by at least 10% of either area. 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 Poetry is

The Census internal point of Poetry is at 32.839400, -96.259500. Austin, the capital, is 197.5 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is McLendon-Chisholm, TX (5,291 people), 7.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mesquite, TX, 19.6 miles away.

Daylight in Poetry

At 32.84° N, Poetry gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Poetry

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is McLendon-Chisholm, 7.7 miles away, with 5,291 people.