Giddings, Texas

Giddings population, 2020 to 2024

Giddings added 333 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.7%. In the latest year it moved by +71. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 159th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Giddings is 35% of it.

Giddings covers 5.28 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,008 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Giddings is less dense than the typical town.

What county Giddings is in

All of Giddings's residents live in Lee County, which had 18,451 residents in 2024. Giddings holds 28.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Giddings

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Giddings by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78942. 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 Giddings is

The Census internal point of Giddings is at 30.183700, -96.928000. Austin, the capital, is 48.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bastrop, TX (12,720 people), 23.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is College Station, TX, 46.8 miles away.

Daylight in Giddings

At 30.18° N, Giddings 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 Giddings

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Lexington, 16.7 miles away, with 1,319 people.