Texas · Census place 4871180
Sunray, Texas
Sunray is a city in Moore County, Texas with an estimated 1,735 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 652nd largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,735
- #652 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- +1.8%
- +31 people
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 1,015 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Sunray population, 2020 to 2024
Sunray added 31 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +8.
Sunray covers 1.71 square miles of land, for 1,015 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Sunray is less dense than the typical town.
What county Sunray is in
All of Sunray's residents live in Moore County, which had 21,872 residents in 2024. Sunray holds 7.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Sunray
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sunray by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79086. 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 Sunray is
The Census internal point of Sunray is at 36.018400, -101.824500. Austin, the capital, is 461.8 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cactus, TX (3,149 people), 10.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Amarillo, TX, 56.7 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 36.018400, -101.824500
- DMS
- 36°01'6.24"N 101°49'28.20"W
- UTM
- 14N 245461.6E 3989680.4N
- Geohash
- 9wrsfuvwm
- Plus code
- 858W259G+96
Daylight in Sunray
At 36.02° N, Sunray gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Sunray
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Cactus, 10.4 miles away, with 3,149 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Sunray, TX?
1,735 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 31 (1.8%) from 1,704 in July 2020.
What county is Sunray in?
Moore County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Sunray?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 79086.
How far is Sunray from Austin?
461.8 miles (743.2 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Sunray.
What is the nearest larger city to Sunray?
Cactus, TX, with 3,149 residents, 10.4 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.