Sweetwater, Texas

Sweetwater population, 2020 to 2024

Sweetwater lost 415 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.9%. In the latest year it moved by -69. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 376th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Sweetwater is 66% of it.

Sweetwater covers 11.07 square miles of land, for 921 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Sweetwater is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sweetwater is in

All of Sweetwater's residents live in Nolan County, which had 14,182 residents in 2024. Sweetwater holds 71.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sweetwater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sweetwater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79556. 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 Sweetwater is

The Census internal point of Sweetwater is at 32.469400, -100.408700. Austin, the capital, is 218.6 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Snyder, TX (11,151 people), 33.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Abilene, TX, 39.1 miles away.

Daylight in Sweetwater

At 32.47° N, Sweetwater gets about 14 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sweetwater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Roscoe, 7.4 miles away, with 1,209 people.