Primera, Texas

Primera population, 2020 to 2024

Primera added 171 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +44. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 208th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Primera is 36% of it.

Primera covers 2.78 square miles of land, for 1,960 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Primera is denser than the typical town.

What county Primera is in

All of Primera's residents live in Cameron County, which had 431,874 residents in 2024. Primera holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Primera

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Primera by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 78552. 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 Primera is

The Census internal point of Primera is at 26.223200, -97.751700. Austin, the capital, is 279.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Harlingen, TX (72,234 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Brownsville, TX, 24.4 miles away.

Daylight in Primera

At 26.22° N, Primera 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 Primera

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Palm Valley, 1.3 miles away, with 1,353 people.