Bay City, Texas

Bay City population, 2020 to 2024

Bay City lost 577 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -123. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 368th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Bay City is 1.1 times that size.

Bay City covers 9.27 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,885 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Bay City is denser than the typical town.

What county Bay City is in

All of Bay City's residents live in Matagorda County, which had 36,391 residents in 2024. Bay City holds 48.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bay City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bay City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77414. 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 Bay City is

The Census internal point of Bay City is at 28.983500, -95.959900. Austin, the capital, is 139.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lake Jackson, TX (28,158 people), 31.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sugar Land, TX, 46.5 miles away.

Daylight in Bay City

At 28.98° N, Bay City gets about 14 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bay City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Sweeny, 16.4 miles away, with 3,602 people.