Portland, Texas

Portland population, 2020 to 2024

Portland added 317 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +228. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 256th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Portland is 1.4 times that size.

Portland covers 12.13 square miles of land and 2.95 of water, for 1,709 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Portland is close to the typical town.

What county Portland is in

All of Portland's residents live in San Patricio County, which had 71,467 residents in 2024. Portland holds 29.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Portland

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Portland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78374, 78390. 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 Portland is

The Census internal point of Portland is at 27.889000, -97.331600. Austin, the capital, is 166.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Corpus Christi, TX (317,317 people), 13.4 miles away.

Daylight in Portland

At 27.89° N, Portland gets about 13 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Portland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Gregory, 3.4 miles away, with 1,717 people.