Hitchcock, Texas

Hitchcock population, 2020 to 2024

Hitchcock added 443 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.1%. In the latest year it moved by +24. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 165th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Hitchcock is 51% of it.

Hitchcock covers 60.43 square miles of land and 31.71 of water, for 128 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Hitchcock is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hitchcock is in

All of Hitchcock's residents live in Galveston County, which had 367,407 residents in 2024. Hitchcock holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hitchcock

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hitchcock by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77510, 77563. 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 Hitchcock is

The Census internal point of Hitchcock is at 29.282600, -95.007600. Austin, the capital, is 177.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is La Marque, TX (20,194 people), 6.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is League City, TX, 15.6 miles away.

Daylight in Hitchcock

At 29.28° N, Hitchcock gets about 14 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hitchcock

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Bayou Vista, 5.1 miles away, with 1,763 people.