Bridgeport, Texas

Bridgeport population, 2020 to 2024

Bridgeport added 822 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.8%. In the latest year it moved by +258. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 96th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Bridgeport is 44% of it.

Bridgeport covers 7.86 square miles of land, for 860 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Bridgeport is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bridgeport is in

All of Bridgeport's residents live in Wise County, which had 81,275 residents in 2024. Bridgeport holds 8.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bridgeport

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bridgeport by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76426. 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 Bridgeport is

The Census internal point of Bridgeport is at 33.210400, -97.772500. Austin, the capital, is 202.9 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Decatur, TX (8,266 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Denton, TX, 36.5 miles away.

Daylight in Bridgeport

At 33.21° N, Bridgeport gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bridgeport

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Chico, 6.1 miles away, with 1,103 people.