Dayton, Texas

Dayton population, 2020 to 2024

Dayton added 1,296 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +15.3%. In the latest year it moved by +426. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 85th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Dayton is 64% of it.

Dayton covers 30.66 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 318 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Dayton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dayton is in

All of Dayton's residents live in Liberty County, which had 115,042 residents in 2024. Dayton holds 8.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dayton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dayton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77535. 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 Dayton is

The Census internal point of Dayton is at 30.013200, -94.936000. Austin, the capital, is 168.5 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mont Belvieu, TX (10,229 people), 11.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pasadena, TX, 27.9 miles away.

Daylight in Dayton

At 30.01° N, Dayton 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 Dayton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Liberty, 9.0 miles away, with 8,974 people.