Austin, Texas

Austin population, 2020 to 2024

Austin added 27,695 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +4,005. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 213th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Austin is 64.7 times that size.

Austin covers 326.39 square miles of land and 6.56 of water, for 3,044 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Austin is denser than the typical town.

The 3 counties Austin spans

Austin crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 993,588 residents as follows; Travis County holds 92.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Austin

43 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Austin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78617, 78652, 78701, 78702, 78703, 78704, 78705, 78712, 78717, 78719, 78721, 78722, 78723, 78724, 78725, 78726, 78727, 78728, 78729, 78730, 78731, 78732, 78733, 78735, 78736, 78739, 78741, 78742, 78744, 78745, 78746, 78747, 78748, 78749, 78750, 78751, 78752, 78753, 78754, 78756, 78757, 78758, 78759. 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 Austin is

The Census internal point of Austin is at 30.298600, -97.754100. Austin, the capital, is 1.9 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Antonio, TX (1,526,656 people), 73.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Round Rock, TX, 16.6 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 190 m (623 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Austin

At 30.30° N, Austin gets about 14 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Austin daylight page.

Places near Austin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Rollingwood, 2.6 miles away, with 1,438 people.