The Colony, Texas

The Colony population, 2020 to 2024

The Colony added 1,124 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +125. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 227th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so The Colony is 3.0 times that size.

The Colony covers 14.01 square miles of land and 2.14 of water, for 3,276 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so The Colony is denser than the typical town.

What county The Colony is in

All of The Colony's residents live in Denton County, which had 1,045,120 residents in 2024. The Colony holds 4.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in The Colony

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap The Colony by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75036, 75056. 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 The Colony is

The Census internal point of The Colony is at 33.089600, -96.903400. Austin, the capital, is 200.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lewisville, TX (135,983 people), 4.9 miles away.

Daylight in The Colony

At 33.09° N, The Colony gets about 14 h 20 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 The Colony

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Hackberry, 4.2 miles away, with 2,959 people.