Gun Barrel City, Texas

Gun Barrel City population, 2020 to 2024

Gun Barrel City added 796 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.8%. In the latest year it moved by +193. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 102nd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Gun Barrel City is 46% of it.

Gun Barrel City covers 6.25 square miles of land and 0.37 of water, for 1,120 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Gun Barrel City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gun Barrel City is in

All of Gun Barrel City's residents live in Henderson County, which had 87,467 residents in 2024. Gun Barrel City holds 8.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gun Barrel City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gun Barrel City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75156. 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 Gun Barrel City is

The Census internal point of Gun Barrel City is at 32.328200, -96.131800. Austin, the capital, is 170.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mabank, TX (7,021 people), 3.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mesquite, TX, 39.8 miles away.

Daylight in Gun Barrel City

At 32.33° N, Gun Barrel City gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gun Barrel City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Mabank, 3.3 miles away, with 7,021 people.