Yoakum, Texas

Yoakum population, 2020 to 2024

Yoakum lost 42 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by -9. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 326th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Yoakum is 38% of it.

Yoakum covers 4.58 square miles of land, for 1,283 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Yoakum is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Yoakum spans

Yoakum crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 5,875 residents as follows; Lavaca County holds 65.3% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Yoakum

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Yoakum by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77995. 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 Yoakum is

The Census internal point of Yoakum is at 29.293200, -97.147000. Austin, the capital, is 76.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cuero, TX (8,215 people), 15.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Braunfels, TX, 64.6 miles away.

Daylight in Yoakum

At 29.29° N, Yoakum gets about 14 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Yoakum

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Shiner, 9.8 miles away, with 2,163 people.