Texas · Census place 4827876
Fulshear, Texas
Fulshear is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas with an estimated 54,629 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 70th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 54,629
- #70 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- +210.1%
- +37,012 people
- Land area
- 12.9 sq mi
- + 0.09 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,228 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Fulshear population, 2020 to 2024
Fulshear added 37,012 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +210.1%. In the latest year it moved by +11,596. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Fulshear is 3.6 times that size.
Fulshear covers 12.92 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 4,228 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Fulshear is denser than the typical town.
What county Fulshear is in
All of Fulshear's residents live in Fort Bend County, which had 958,434 residents in 2024. Fulshear holds 5.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Fulshear
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fulshear by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77406, 77441. 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 Fulshear is
The Census internal point of Fulshear is at 29.692400, -95.886600. Austin, the capital, is 118.0 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sugar Land, TX (109,851 people), 16.7 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 29.692400, -95.886600
- DMS
- 29°41'32.64"N 95°53'11.76"W
- UTM
- 15N 220678.9E 3288188.8N
- Geohash
- 9v7bfj3db
- Plus code
- 76X6M4R7+X9
Daylight in Fulshear
At 29.69° N, Fulshear gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Fulshear
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Weston Lakes, 3.6 miles away, with 4,514 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Fulshear, TX?
54,629 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 37,012 (210.1%) from 17,617 in July 2020.
What county is Fulshear in?
Fort Bend County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Fulshear?
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 77406, 77441.
How far is Fulshear from Austin?
118.0 miles (189.9 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Fulshear.
What is the nearest larger city to Fulshear?
Sugar Land, TX, with 109,851 residents, 16.7 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.