Sonora, Texas

Sonora population, 2020 to 2024

Sonora lost 61 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +32.

Sonora covers 2.23 square miles of land, for 1,085 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Sonora is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sonora is in

All of Sonora's residents live in Sutton County, which had 3,269 residents in 2024. Sonora holds 74.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sonora

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sonora by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76950. 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 Sonora is

The Census internal point of Sonora is at 30.570700, -100.641800. Austin, the capital, is 174.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Junction, TX (2,492 people), 52.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is San Angelo, TX, 61.2 miles away.

Daylight in Sonora

At 30.57° N, Sonora gets about 14 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sonora

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Eldorado, 20.3 miles away, with 1,495 people.