Harker Heights, Texas

Harker Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Harker Heights added 2,029 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.1%. In the latest year it moved by +823. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 162nd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Harker Heights is 2.3 times that size.

Harker Heights covers 15.62 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 2,258 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Harker Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Harker Heights is in

All of Harker Heights's residents live in Bell County, which had 399,578 residents in 2024. Harker Heights holds 8.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Harker Heights

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Harker Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76513, 76548. 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 Harker Heights is

The Census internal point of Harker Heights is at 31.056700, -97.644200. Austin, the capital, is 54.4 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Killeen, TX (160,616 people), 5.4 miles away.

Daylight in Harker Heights

At 31.06° N, Harker Heights gets about 14 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Harker Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Nolanville, 2.6 miles away, with 7,395 people.