San Juan, Texas

San Juan population, 2020 to 2024

San Juan added 1,972 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.6%. In the latest year it moved by +703. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 173rd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so San Juan is 2.4 times that size.

San Juan covers 12.12 square miles of land, for 3,081 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so San Juan is denser than the typical town.

What county San Juan is in

All of San Juan's residents live in Hidalgo County, which had 914,820 residents in 2024. San Juan holds 4.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in San Juan

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps San Juan by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78589. 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 Juan is

The Census internal point of San Juan is at 26.189400, -98.151800. Austin, the capital, is 283.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pharr, TX (81,142 people), 3.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is McAllen, TX, 6.3 miles away.

Daylight in San Juan

At 26.19° N, San Juan 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 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near San Juan

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Alamo, 2.2 miles away, with 20,694 people.