Brenham, Texas

Brenham population, 2020 to 2024

Brenham added 2,364 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.6%. In the latest year it moved by +367. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 97th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Brenham is 1.3 times that size.

Brenham covers 13.06 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,511 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Brenham is close to the typical town.

What county Brenham is in

All of Brenham's residents live in Washington County, which had 37,810 residents in 2024. Brenham holds 52.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brenham

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brenham by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77833. 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 Brenham is

The Census internal point of Brenham is at 30.158200, -96.395600. Austin, the capital, is 80.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is College Station, TX (128,023 people), 30.1 miles away.

Daylight in Brenham

At 30.16° N, Brenham gets about 14 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brenham

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Somerville, 15.2 miles away, with 1,478 people.