Van, Texas

Van population, 2020 to 2024

Van added 274 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.3%. In the latest year it moved by +86.

Van covers 2.99 square miles of land, for 985 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Van is less dense than the typical town.

What county Van is in

All of Van's residents live in Van Zandt County, which had 65,304 residents in 2024. Van holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Van

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Van by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75790. 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 Van is

The Census internal point of Van is at 32.523900, -95.637600. Austin, the capital, is 198.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hideaway, TX (3,402 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tyler, TX, 24.0 miles away.

Daylight in Van

At 32.52° N, Van 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 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Van

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Hideaway, 10.7 miles away, with 3,402 people.