Texas · Census place 4806200

Beach City, Texas

Beach City is a city in Chambers County, Texas with an estimated 3,456 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 463rd largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,456
#463 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+6.8%
+219 people
Land area
4.5 sq mi
Density
771 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Beach City. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Beach City population, 2020 to 2024

Beach City added 219 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.8%. In the latest year it moved by +60.

3,23720203,21320213,25220223,39620233,4562024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,231. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Beach City covers 4.48 square miles of land, for 771 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Beach City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Beach City is in

All of Beach City's residents live in Chambers County, which had 56,179 residents in 2024. Beach City holds 6.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Beach City

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

The Census internal point of Beach City is at 29.738900, -94.846500. Austin, the capital, is 177.0 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Baytown, TX (86,004 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pasadena, TX, 19.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
29.738900, -94.846500
DMS
29°44'20.04"N 94°50'47.40"W
UTM
15N 321429.2E 3291281.6N
Geohash
9vk91tycs
Plus code
76X7P5Q3+HC

Daylight in Beach City

At 29.74° N, Beach City gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Beach City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Baytown, 7.5 miles away, with 86,004 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Beach City, TX?

3,456 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 219 (6.8%) from 3,237 in July 2020.

What county is Beach City in?

Chambers County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Beach City?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 77523.

How far is Beach City from Austin?

177.0 miles (284.9 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Beach City.

What is the nearest larger city to Beach City?

Baytown, TX, with 86,004 residents, 7.5 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.