Texas · Census place 4870904
Sulphur Springs, Texas
Sulphur Springs is a city in Hopkins County, Texas with an estimated 16,891 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 176th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 16,891
- #176 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- +5.8%
- +930 people
- Land area
- 20.5 sq mi
- + 3.38 sq mi water
- Density
- 822 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Sulphur Springs population, 2020 to 2024
Sulphur Springs added 930 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.8%. In the latest year it moved by +264. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 167th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Sulphur Springs is 1.1 times that size.
Sulphur Springs covers 20.54 square miles of land and 3.38 of water, for 822 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Sulphur Springs is less dense than the typical town.
What county Sulphur Springs is in
All of Sulphur Springs's residents live in Hopkins County, which had 38,784 residents in 2024. Sulphur Springs holds 43.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Sulphur Springs
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sulphur Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75482. 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 Sulphur Springs is
The Census internal point of Sulphur Springs is at 33.143100, -95.614700. Austin, the capital, is 234.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenville, TX (34,355 people), 28.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tyler, TX, 59.8 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 33.143100, -95.614700
- DMS
- 33°08'35.16"N 95°36'52.92"W
- UTM
- 15N 256106.4E 3670195.1N
- Geohash
- 9vuh81x88
- Plus code
- 865649VP+64
Daylight in Sulphur Springs
At 33.14° N, Sulphur Springs gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Sulphur Springs
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Cooper, 16.4 miles away, with 2,082 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Sulphur Springs, TX?
16,891 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 930 (5.8%) from 15,961 in July 2020.
What county is Sulphur Springs in?
Hopkins County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Sulphur Springs?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 75482.
How far is Sulphur Springs from Austin?
234.3 miles (377.1 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Sulphur Springs.
What is the nearest larger city to Sulphur Springs?
Greenville, TX, with 34,355 residents, 28.8 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.