Gonzales, Texas

Gonzales population, 2020 to 2024

Gonzales added 72 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -9. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 270th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Gonzales is 47% of it.

Gonzales covers 6.08 square miles of land, for 1,190 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Gonzales is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gonzales is in

All of Gonzales's residents live in Gonzales County, which had 20,040 residents in 2024. Gonzales holds 36.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gonzales

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gonzales by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78629. 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 Gonzales is

The Census internal point of Gonzales is at 29.512500, -97.447200. Austin, the capital, is 55.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lockhart, TX (17,166 people), 29.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Braunfels, TX, 42.1 miles away.

Daylight in Gonzales

At 29.51° N, Gonzales gets about 14 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 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 Gonzales

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Luling, 16.7 miles away, with 5,752 people.