Slaton, Texas

Slaton population, 2020 to 2024

Slaton lost 180 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +3. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 366th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Slaton is 37% of it.

Slaton covers 5.40 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,055 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Slaton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Slaton is in

All of Slaton's residents live in Lubbock County, which had 327,394 residents in 2024. Slaton holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Slaton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Slaton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79364. 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 Slaton is

The Census internal point of Slaton is at 33.445500, -101.650900. Austin, the capital, is 317.3 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lubbock, TX (272,086 people), 15.9 miles away.

Daylight in Slaton

At 33.45° N, Slaton gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Slaton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Ransom Canyon, 6.2 miles away, with 1,180 people.