Dripping Springs, Texas

Dripping Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Dripping Springs added 5,054 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +98.9%. In the latest year it moved by +1,467. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Dripping Springs is 66% of it.

Dripping Springs covers 8.82 square miles of land, for 1,152 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Dripping Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dripping Springs is in

All of Dripping Springs's residents live in Hays County, which had 292,029 residents in 2024. Dripping Springs holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dripping Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dripping Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78620. 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 Dripping Springs is

The Census internal point of Dripping Springs is at 30.195900, -98.093700. Austin, the capital, is 21.8 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lakeway, TX (19,056 people), 12.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Austin, TX, 21.5 miles away.

Daylight in Dripping Springs

At 30.20° N, Dripping Springs gets about 14 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dripping Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Bee Cave, 11.0 miles away, with 8,510 people.