Houston, Texas

Houston population, 2020 to 2024

Houston added 91,180 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +43,217. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 202nd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Houston is 155.8 times that size.

Houston covers 640.75 square miles of land and 31.22 of water, for 3,730 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Houston is denser than the typical town.

The 3 counties Houston spans

Houston crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 2,390,125 residents as follows; Harris County holds 97.9% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Houston

106 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Houston by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77002, 77003, 77004, 77005, 77006, 77007, 77008, 77009, 77010, 77011, 77012, 77013, 77015, 77016, 77017, 77018, 77019, 77020, 77021, 77022, 77023, 77024, 77025, 77026, 77027, 77028, 77029, 77030, 77031, 77032, 77033, 77034, 77035, 77036, 77037, 77038, 77040, 77041, 77042, 77043, 77044, 77045, 77046, 77047, 77048, 77051, 77053, 77054, 77055, 77056, 77057, 77058, 77059, 77060, 77061, 77062, 77063, 77064, 77065, 77066, 77067, 77068, 77069, 77070, 77071, 77072, 77073, 77074, 77075, 77076, 77077, 77078, 77079, 77080, 77081, 77082, 77083, 77084, 77085, 77086, 77087, 77088, 77089, 77090, 77091, 77092, 77093, 77094, 77096, 77098, 77099, 77204, 77336, 77338, 77339, 77345, 77346, 77396, 77407, 77449, 77450, 77489, 77504, 77506, 77547, 77598. 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 Houston is

The Census internal point of Houston is at 29.785700, -95.388800. Austin, the capital, is 144.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chicago, IL (2,721,308 people), 936.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pearland, TX, 16.4 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 19 m (62 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Houston

At 29.79° N, Houston gets about 14 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Houston daylight page.

Places near Houston

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is West University Place, 5.5 miles away, with 15,149 people.