Ames, Texas

Ames population, 2020 to 2024

Ames added 256 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +26.8%. In the latest year it moved by +66.

Ames covers 3.30 square miles of land, for 367 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Ames is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ames is in

All of Ames's residents live in Liberty County, which had 115,042 residents in 2024. Ames holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ames

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ames by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77575. 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 Ames is

The Census internal point of Ames is at 30.045100, -94.737300. Austin, the capital, is 180.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Liberty, TX (8,974 people), 3.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Beaumont, TX, 35.5 miles away.

Daylight in Ames

At 30.05° N, Ames gets about 14 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ames

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Liberty, 3.1 miles away, with 8,974 people.