Weslaco, Texas

Weslaco population, 2020 to 2024

Weslaco added 3,236 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.0%. In the latest year it moved by +602. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 140th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Weslaco is 2.9 times that size.

Weslaco covers 16.92 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 2,592 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Weslaco is denser than the typical town.

What county Weslaco is in

All of Weslaco's residents live in Hidalgo County, which had 914,820 residents in 2024. Weslaco holds 4.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Weslaco

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Weslaco by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78596, 78599. 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 Weslaco is

The Census internal point of Weslaco is at 26.160500, -97.987700. Austin, the capital, is 284.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pharr, TX (81,142 people), 12.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Edinburg, TX, 15.0 miles away.

Daylight in Weslaco

At 26.16° N, Weslaco gets about 13 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Weslaco

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Donna, 3.2 miles away, with 16,876 people.