Whitney, Texas

Whitney population, 2020 to 2024

Whitney added 127 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.4%. In the latest year it moved by +33.

Whitney covers 1.86 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,142 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Whitney is less dense than the typical town.

What county Whitney is in

All of Whitney's residents live in Hill County, which had 38,771 residents in 2024. Whitney holds 5.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Whitney

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Whitney by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 76692. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Whitney is

The Census internal point of Whitney is at 31.952400, -97.319800. Austin, the capital, is 118.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hillsboro, TX (8,878 people), 12.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Waco, TX, 28.3 miles away.

Daylight in Whitney

At 31.95° N, Whitney gets about 14 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Whitney

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Hillsboro, 12.6 miles away, with 8,878 people.