McAllen, Texas

Current Weather

The city of McAllen is located in Hidalgo County.

McAllen is 30 feet [9.14 m] above sea level.^<1>

Time Zone: McAllen lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of McAllen, but it seems to be unique to this community.

At the time of the 2000 Census, McAllen had a population of 106,414 people^<2> (or 18.55% of the total population of Hidalgo County). The population of McAllen represented 0.51% of the total of Texas, making it the state's 23rd most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, McAllen had a population of 129,776 people. This is an increase of 21.95% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for McAllen.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance<3>	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Alamo	E	8 mi [12.87 km]	16,608	12.52% increase
	Alton	NW	6 mi [9.66 km]	11,523	162.84% increase
	Donna	E	12 mi [19.31 km]	17,094	15.75% increase
	Edinburg	NE	8 mi [12.87 km]	71,520	47.57% increase
	Elsa	E	16 mi [25.75 km]	6,624	19.37% increase
	Hidalgo	S	7 mi [11.27 km]	11,984	63.67% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for McAllen.

Websites for McAllen

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either McAllen or Hidalgo County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.

The Commemorative Quarter for Texas<4>

Search for Local Businesses

Google's 'Search-by-Location' has proven to be a useful tool by people who planned visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) McAllen. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

Other Roadside Stops

Off-the-Road Links

Footnotes