Texas · Census place 4861736
Rice, Texas
Rice is a city in Navarro County, Texas with an estimated 1,254 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 746th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,254
- #746 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- +4.2%
- +51 people
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- + 0.08 sq mi water
- Density
- 470 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Rice population, 2020 to 2024
Rice added 51 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +3.
Rice covers 2.67 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 470 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Rice is less dense than the typical town.
What county Rice is in
All of Rice's residents live in Navarro County, which had 56,533 residents in 2024. Rice holds 2.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Rice
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rice by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75155. 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 Rice is
The Census internal point of Rice is at 32.239300, -96.497400. Austin, the capital, is 154.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ennis, TX (24,753 people), 9.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mesquite, TX, 36.3 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 32.239300, -96.497400
- DMS
- 32°14'21.48"N 96°29'50.64"W
- UTM
- 14N 735800.5E 3569709.0N
- Geohash
- 9verkhuxx
- Plus code
- 86456GQ3+P2
Daylight in Rice
At 32.24° N, Rice gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Rice
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Ennis, 9.9 miles away, with 24,753 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Rice, TX?
1,254 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 51 (4.2%) from 1,203 in July 2020.
What county is Rice in?
Navarro County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Rice?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 75155.
How far is Rice from Austin?
154.4 miles (248.4 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Rice.
What is the nearest larger city to Rice?
Ennis, TX, with 24,753 residents, 9.9 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.