Sterling City, Texas

Sterling City population, 2020 to 2024

Sterling City added 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +9.

Sterling City covers 0.98 square miles of land, for 1,150 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Sterling City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sterling City is in

All of Sterling City's residents live in Sterling County, which had 1,387 residents in 2024. Sterling City holds 81.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sterling City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sterling City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76951. 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 Sterling City is

The Census internal point of Sterling City is at 31.839200, -100.985900. Austin, the capital, is 220.5 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Colorado City, TX (3,915 people), 39.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is San Angelo, TX, 41.8 miles away.

Daylight in Sterling City

At 31.84° N, Sterling City gets about 14 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sterling City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Robert Lee, 29.7 miles away, with 1,063 people.