Big Sandy, Texas

Big Sandy population, 2020 to 2024

Big Sandy added 95 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.7%. In the latest year it moved by +15.

Big Sandy covers 1.62 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 819 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Big Sandy is less dense than the typical town.

What county Big Sandy is in

All of Big Sandy's residents live in Upshur County, which had 44,050 residents in 2024. Big Sandy holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Big Sandy

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Big Sandy by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 75755. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Big Sandy is

The Census internal point of Big Sandy is at 32.585700, -95.112500. Austin, the capital, is 222.5 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hawkins, TX (1,412 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tyler, TX, 21.7 miles away.

Daylight in Big Sandy

At 32.59° N, Big Sandy gets about 14 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Big Sandy

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Hawkins, 5.3 miles away, with 1,412 people.