Selma, Texas

Selma population, 2020 to 2024

Selma added 472 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.1%. In the latest year it moved by +103. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 200th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Selma is 78% of it.

Selma covers 5.01 square miles of land, for 2,375 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Selma is denser than the typical town.

The 3 counties Selma spans

Selma crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 11,900 residents as follows; Bexar County holds 65.6% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Selma

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Selma by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78154. 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 Selma is

The Census internal point of Selma is at 29.586500, -98.315300. Austin, the capital, is 58.7 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Universal City, TX (20,267 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Braunfels, TX, 14.4 miles away.

Daylight in Selma

At 29.59° N, Selma gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Selma

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Universal City, 2.4 miles away, with 20,267 people.