Baytown, Texas

Baytown population, 2020 to 2024

Baytown added 568 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +697. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 284th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Baytown is 5.6 times that size.

Baytown covers 40.50 square miles of land and 1.33 of water, for 2,124 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Baytown is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Baytown spans

Baytown crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 86,004 residents as follows; Harris County holds 94.1% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Baytown

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Baytown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77520, 77521, 77523. 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 Baytown is

The Census internal point of Baytown is at 29.764800, -94.967500. Austin, the capital, is 169.5 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pasadena, TX (149,617 people), 13.4 miles away.

Daylight in Baytown

At 29.76° N, Baytown gets about 14 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Baytown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Beach City, 7.5 miles away, with 3,456 people.