Cottonwood Shores, Texas

Cottonwood Shores population, 2020 to 2024

Cottonwood Shores added 239 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +16.7%. In the latest year it moved by +38.

Cottonwood Shores covers 1.07 square miles of land, for 1,559 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Cottonwood Shores is close to the typical town.

What county Cottonwood Shores is in

All of Cottonwood Shores's residents live in Burnet County, which had 55,722 residents in 2024. Cottonwood Shores holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cottonwood Shores

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cottonwood Shores by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78657. 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 Cottonwood Shores is

The Census internal point of Cottonwood Shores is at 30.555000, -98.327600. Austin, the capital, is 40.0 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Meadowlakes, TX (1,843 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Georgetown, TX, 38.2 miles away.

Daylight in Cottonwood Shores

At 30.56° N, Cottonwood Shores gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cottonwood Shores

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Meadowlakes, 2.0 miles away, with 1,843 people.