Roma, Texas

Roma population, 2020 to 2024

Roma added 98 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +61. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 274th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Roma is 76% of it.

Roma covers 5.86 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 1,985 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Roma is denser than the typical town.

What county Roma is in

All of Roma's residents live in Starr County, which had 66,587 residents in 2024. Roma holds 17.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Roma

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Roma by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78584. 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 Roma is

The Census internal point of Roma is at 26.414700, -99.003900. Austin, the capital, is 277.5 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rio Grande City, TX (15,526 people), 11.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is McAllen, TX, 48.7 miles away.

Daylight in Roma

At 26.41° N, Roma gets about 13 h 48 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Roma

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Escobares, 2.7 miles away, with 2,589 people.