Katy, Texas

Katy population, 2020 to 2024

Katy added 5,322 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +23.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1,132. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Katy is 1.8 times that size.

Katy covers 15.29 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,814 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Katy is denser than the typical town.

The 3 counties Katy spans

Katy crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 27,741 residents as follows; Harris County holds 53.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Katy

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Katy by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77493, 77494. 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 Katy is

The Census internal point of Katy is at 29.790900, -95.840700. Austin, the capital, is 118.4 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fulshear, TX (54,629 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sugar Land, TX, 18.5 miles away.

Daylight in Katy

At 29.79° N, Katy 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.

Places near Katy

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Brookshire, 6.7 miles away, with 5,782 people.