Belton, Texas

Belton population, 2020 to 2024

Belton added 2,507 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.8%. In the latest year it moved by +454. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 115th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Belton is 1.7 times that size.

Belton covers 20.25 square miles of land and 0.91 of water, for 1,266 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Belton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Belton is in

All of Belton's residents live in Bell County, which had 399,578 residents in 2024. Belton holds 6.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Belton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Belton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76513. 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 Belton is

The Census internal point of Belton is at 31.052300, -97.479500. Austin, the capital, is 56.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Temple, TX (96,267 people), 6.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Killeen, TX, 15.0 miles away.

Daylight in Belton

At 31.05° N, Belton gets about 14 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Belton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Temple, 6.5 miles away, with 96,267 people.