Texas · Census place 4805384
Balcones Heights, Texas
Balcones Heights is a city in Bexar County, Texas with an estimated 2,707 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 521st largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,707
- #521 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- -1.3%
- -37 people
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 4,102 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Balcones Heights population, 2020 to 2024
Balcones Heights lost 37 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +2.
Balcones Heights covers 0.66 square miles of land, for 4,102 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Balcones Heights is denser than the typical town.
What county Balcones Heights is in
All of Balcones Heights's residents live in Bexar County, which had 2,127,737 residents in 2024. Balcones Heights holds 0.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Balcones Heights
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Balcones Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78201, 78213. 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 Balcones Heights is
The Census internal point of Balcones Heights is at 29.490200, -98.549100. Austin, the capital, is 72.7 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is San Antonio, TX (1,526,656 people), 2.4 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 29.490200, -98.549100
- DMS
- 29°29'24.72"N 98°32'56.76"W
- UTM
- 14N 543709.1E 3262382.2N
- Geohash
- 9v1zv2w8z
- Plus code
- 76X3FFR2+39
Daylight in Balcones Heights
At 29.49° N, Balcones Heights gets about 14 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Balcones Heights
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is San Antonio, 2.4 miles away, with 1,526,656 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Balcones Heights, TX?
2,707 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 37 (1.3%) from 2,744 in July 2020.
What county is Balcones Heights in?
Bexar County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Balcones Heights?
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 78201, 78213.
How far is Balcones Heights from Austin?
72.7 miles (117.0 km) in a straight line, heading NE from Balcones Heights.
What is the nearest larger city to Balcones Heights?
San Antonio, TX, with 1,526,656 residents, 2.4 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.