San Benito, Texas

San Benito population, 2020 to 2024

San Benito lost 131 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +136. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 322nd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so San Benito is 1.6 times that size.

San Benito covers 15.80 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 1,564 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so San Benito is close to the typical town.

What county San Benito is in

All of San Benito's residents live in Cameron County, which had 431,874 residents in 2024. San Benito holds 5.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in San Benito

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps San Benito by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78586. 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 San Benito is

The Census internal point of San Benito is at 26.129400, -97.644000. Austin, the capital, is 286.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Harlingen, TX (72,234 people), 5.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Brownsville, TX, 15.2 miles away.

Daylight in San Benito

At 26.13° N, San Benito gets about 13 h 47 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 San Benito

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Harlingen, 5.4 miles away, with 72,234 people.