Texas · Census place 4865768

Santa Rosa, Texas

Santa Rosa is a town in Cameron County, Texas with an estimated 2,366 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 557th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,366
#557 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
-3.7%
-91 people
Land area
0.8 sq mi
Density
3,073 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Santa Rosa. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Santa Rosa population, 2020 to 2024

Santa Rosa lost 91 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.7%. In the latest year it moved by -14.

2,45720202,42920212,40920222,38020232,3662024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,462. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Santa Rosa covers 0.77 square miles of land, for 3,073 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Santa Rosa is denser than the typical town.

What county Santa Rosa is in

All of Santa Rosa's residents live in Cameron County, which had 431,874 residents in 2024. Santa Rosa holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Santa Rosa

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Santa Rosa by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 78593. 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 Santa Rosa is

The Census internal point of Santa Rosa is at 26.256100, -97.825300. Austin, the capital, is 277.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Primera, TX (5,449 people), 5.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 20.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
26.256100, -97.825300
DMS
26°15'21.96"N 97°49'31.08"W
UTM
14N 617310.2E 2904577.8N
Geohash
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Plus code
76R4754F+CV

Daylight in Santa Rosa

At 26.26° N, Santa Rosa 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 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Santa Rosa

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Primera, 5.1 miles away, with 5,449 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Santa Rosa, TX?

2,366 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 91 (3.7%) from 2,457 in July 2020.

What county is Santa Rosa in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Santa Rosa?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78593.

How far is Santa Rosa from Austin?

277.7 miles (446.8 km) in a straight line, heading N from Santa Rosa.

What is the nearest larger city to Santa Rosa?

Primera, TX, with 5,449 residents, 5.1 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.