Texas · Census place 4860544

Rancho Viejo, Texas

Rancho Viejo is a town in Cameron County, Texas with an estimated 2,863 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 509th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,863
#509 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+1.2%
+33 people
Land area
2.1 sq mi
+ 0.25 sq mi water
Density
1,397 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Rancho Viejo. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Rancho Viejo population, 2020 to 2024

Rancho Viejo added 33 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

2,83020202,83820212,85920222,86220232,8632024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,832. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Rancho Viejo covers 2.05 square miles of land and 0.25 of water, for 1,397 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Rancho Viejo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rancho Viejo is in

All of Rancho Viejo's residents live in Cameron County, which had 431,874 residents in 2024. Rancho Viejo holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rancho Viejo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rancho Viejo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 78575. 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 Rancho Viejo is

The Census internal point of Rancho Viejo is at 26.035800, -97.555400. Austin, the capital, is 293.0 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Los Fresnos, TX (8,563 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Brownsville, TX, 7.1 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
26.035800, -97.555400
DMS
26°02'8.88"N 97°33'19.44"W
UTM
14N 644537.8E 2880448.4N
Geohash
9udsh5dmd
Plus code
76R42CPV+8R

Daylight in Rancho Viejo

At 26.04° N, Rancho Viejo gets about 13 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 31 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 Rancho Viejo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Los Fresnos, 5.0 miles away, with 8,563 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Rancho Viejo, TX?

2,863 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 33 (1.2%) from 2,830 in July 2020.

What county is Rancho Viejo in?

Cameron County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Rancho Viejo?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78575.

How far is Rancho Viejo from Austin?

293.0 miles (471.6 km) in a straight line, heading N from Rancho Viejo.

What is the nearest larger city to Rancho Viejo?

Los Fresnos, TX, with 8,563 residents, 5.0 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.