Bowie, Texas

Bowie population, 2020 to 2024

Bowie added 608 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.2%. In the latest year it moved by +53. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 113th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Bowie is 39% of it.

Bowie covers 5.52 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,097 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Bowie is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bowie is in

All of Bowie's residents live in Montague County, which had 21,890 residents in 2024. Bowie holds 27.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bowie

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bowie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76230. 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 Bowie is

The Census internal point of Bowie is at 33.557000, -97.846100. Austin, the capital, is 226.9 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bridgeport, TX (6,763 people), 24.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wichita Falls, TX, 45.9 miles away.

Daylight in Bowie

At 33.56° N, Bowie gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bowie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Alvord, 16.3 miles away, with 1,594 people.