Bridge City, Texas

Bridge City population, 2020 to 2024

Bridge City added 244 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +133. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 222nd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Bridge City is 64% of it.

Bridge City covers 6.44 square miles of land and 0.71 of water, for 1,523 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Bridge City is close to the typical town.

What county Bridge City is in

All of Bridge City's residents live in Orange County, which had 86,115 residents in 2024. Bridge City holds 11.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bridge City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Bridge City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77611, 77630. 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 Bridge City is

The Census internal point of Bridge City is at 30.030900, -93.838100. Austin, the capital, is 233.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Groves, TX (16,866 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Beaumont, TX, 18.8 miles away.

Daylight in Bridge City

At 30.03° N, Bridge City gets about 14 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bridge City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is West Orange, 5.7 miles away, with 3,397 people.