Jamaica Beach, Texas

Jamaica Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Jamaica Beach lost 2 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

Jamaica Beach covers 0.58 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 1,857 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Jamaica Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Jamaica Beach is in

All of Jamaica Beach's residents live in Galveston County, which had 367,407 residents in 2024. Jamaica Beach holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jamaica Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jamaica Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77554. 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 Jamaica Beach is

The Census internal point of Jamaica Beach is at 29.190400, -94.979300. Austin, the capital, is 181.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Galveston, TX (53,538 people), 0.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is League City, TX, 22.1 miles away.

Daylight in Jamaica Beach

At 29.19° N, Jamaica Beach gets about 14 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jamaica Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Galveston, 0.9 miles away, with 53,538 people.