Buda, Texas

Buda population, 2020 to 2024

Buda added 808 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.3%. In the latest year it moved by -12. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 180th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Buda is 1.0 times that size.

Buda covers 9.62 square miles of land, for 1,673 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Buda is close to the typical town.

What county Buda is in

All of Buda's residents live in Hays County, which had 292,029 residents in 2024. Buda holds 5.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Buda

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Buda by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78610. 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 Buda is

The Census internal point of Buda is at 30.080400, -97.855700. Austin, the capital, is 15.1 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kyle, TX (65,833 people), 6.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Austin, TX, 16.3 miles away.

Daylight in Buda

At 30.08° N, Buda 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 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Buda

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Kyle, 6.2 miles away, with 65,833 people.