Texas · Census place 4825068
Fairchilds, Texas
Fairchilds is a village in Fort Bend County, Texas with an estimated 1,039 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 792nd largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,039
- #792 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- +18.3%
- +161 people
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 486 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Fairchilds population, 2020 to 2024
Fairchilds added 161 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +18.3%. In the latest year it moved by +33.
Fairchilds covers 2.14 square miles of land, for 486 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Fairchilds is less dense than the typical town.
What county Fairchilds is in
All of Fairchilds's residents live in Fort Bend County, which had 958,434 residents in 2024. Fairchilds holds 0.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Fairchilds
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fairchilds by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 77461, 77469. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.
Where Fairchilds is
The Census internal point of Fairchilds is at 29.436600, -95.777000. Austin, the capital, is 131.1 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pleak, TX (1,182 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sugar Land, TX, 13.8 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 29.436600, -95.777000
- DMS
- 29°26'11.76"N 95°46'37.20"W
- UTM
- 15N 230609.9E 3259568.8N
- Geohash
- 9v5zkwc2d
- Plus code
- 76X6C6PF+J6
Daylight in Fairchilds
At 29.44° N, Fairchilds gets about 14 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Fairchilds
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Pleak, 3.0 miles away, with 1,182 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Fairchilds, TX?
1,039 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 161 (18.3%) from 878 in July 2020.
What county is Fairchilds in?
Fort Bend County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Fairchilds?
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 77461, 77469.
How far is Fairchilds from Austin?
131.1 miles (211.0 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Fairchilds.
What is the nearest larger city to Fairchilds?
Pleak, TX, with 1,182 residents, 3.0 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.