Fort Stockton, Texas

Fort Stockton population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Stockton lost 324 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.8%. In the latest year it moved by -23. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 375th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Fort Stockton is 53% of it.

Fort Stockton covers 5.55 square miles of land, for 1,468 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Fort Stockton is close to the typical town.

What county Fort Stockton is in

All of Fort Stockton's residents live in Pecos County, which had 14,712 residents in 2024. Fort Stockton holds 55.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Stockton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Stockton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79735. 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 Fort Stockton is

The Census internal point of Fort Stockton is at 30.892600, -102.884200. Austin, the capital, is 308.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Town of Pecos, TX (10,224 people), 51.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Odessa, TX, 75.3 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Stockton

At 30.89° N, Fort Stockton gets about 14 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Stockton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is McCamey, 42.7 miles away, with 1,728 people.