Progreso, Texas

Progreso population, 2020 to 2024

Progreso added 354 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.3%. In the latest year it moved by +87. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 156th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Progreso is 34% of it.

Progreso covers 3.00 square miles of land, for 1,727 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Progreso is denser than the typical town.

What county Progreso is in

All of Progreso's residents live in Hidalgo County, which had 914,820 residents in 2024. Progreso holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Progreso

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Progreso by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78579, 78596. 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 Progreso is

The Census internal point of Progreso is at 26.096100, -97.956600. Austin, the capital, is 289.0 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mercedes, TX (17,535 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 19.6 miles away.

Daylight in Progreso

At 26.10° N, Progreso gets about 13 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Progreso

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Mercedes, 4.8 miles away, with 17,535 people.