Princeton, Texas

Princeton population, 2020 to 2024

Princeton added 19,450 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +110.7%. In the latest year it moved by +8,683. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Princeton is 2.4 times that size.

Princeton covers 14.12 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 2,622 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Princeton is denser than the typical town.

What county Princeton is in

All of Princeton's residents live in Collin County, which had 1,254,658 residents in 2024. Princeton holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Princeton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Princeton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75407. 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 Princeton is

The Census internal point of Princeton is at 33.184500, -96.509400. Austin, the capital, is 213.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is McKinney, TX (227,526 people), 9.0 miles away.

Daylight in Princeton

At 33.18° N, Princeton 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 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Princeton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Lowry Crossing, 2.3 miles away, with 2,028 people.