Gatesville, Texas

Gatesville population, 2020 to 2024

Gatesville added 267 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -21. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 248th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Gatesville is 1.1 times that size.

Gatesville covers 10.66 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,537 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Gatesville is close to the typical town.

What county Gatesville is in

All of Gatesville's residents live in Coryell County, which had 86,370 residents in 2024. Gatesville holds 19.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gatesville

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Gatesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76528, 76596, 76597, 76598, 76599. 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 Gatesville is

The Census internal point of Gatesville is at 31.438700, -97.746000. Austin, the capital, is 80.5 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Copperas Cove, TX (39,627 people), 24.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Killeen, TX, 25.0 miles away.

Daylight in Gatesville

At 31.44° N, Gatesville gets about 14 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gatesville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is McGregor, 18.9 miles away, with 6,161 people.