Texas · Census place 4838020
Jonestown, Texas
Jonestown is a city in Travis County, Texas with an estimated 2,615 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 528th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,615
- #528 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- +9.5%
- +227 people
- Land area
- 6.5 sq mi
- + 1.19 sq mi water
- Density
- 400 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Jonestown population, 2020 to 2024
Jonestown added 227 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.5%. In the latest year it moved by -4.
Jonestown covers 6.53 square miles of land and 1.19 of water, for 400 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Jonestown is less dense than the typical town.
What county Jonestown is in
All of Jonestown's residents live in Travis County, which had 1,363,767 residents in 2024. Jonestown holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Jonestown
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Jonestown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78641, 78645. 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 Jonestown is
The Census internal point of Jonestown is at 30.481700, -97.932000. Austin, the capital, is 18.4 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lago Vista, TX (10,201 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Round Rock, TX, 16.3 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 30.481700, -97.932000
- DMS
- 30°28'54.12"N 97°55'55.20"W
- UTM
- 14N 602507.9E 3372648.2N
- Geohash
- 9v6m7t00g
- Plus code
- 8624F3J9+M5
Daylight in Jonestown
At 30.48° N, Jonestown gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Jonestown
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Lago Vista, 4.0 miles away, with 10,201 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Jonestown, TX?
2,615 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 227 (9.5%) from 2,388 in July 2020.
What county is Jonestown in?
Travis County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Jonestown?
2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 78641, 78645.
How far is Jonestown from Austin?
18.4 miles (29.5 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Jonestown.
What is the nearest larger city to Jonestown?
Lago Vista, TX, with 10,201 residents, 4.0 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.