Waco, Texas

Waco population, 2020 to 2024

Waco added 6,065 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.3%. In the latest year it moved by +1,665. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 195th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Waco is 9.6 times that size.

Waco covers 91.01 square miles of land and 12.44 of water, for 1,611 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Waco is close to the typical town.

What county Waco is in

All of Waco's residents live in McLennan County, which had 270,358 residents in 2024. Waco holds 54.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waco

9 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Waco by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76701, 76704, 76706, 76707, 76708, 76710, 76711, 76712, 76798. 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 Waco is

The Census internal point of Waco is at 31.558000, -97.189700. Austin, the capital, is 94.5 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Killeen, TX (160,616 people), 46.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 169 m (554 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Waco

At 31.56° N, Waco gets about 14 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Waco daylight page.

Places near Waco

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Beverly Hills, 3.2 miles away, with 1,847 people.