Kemah, Texas

Kemah population, 2020 to 2024

Kemah added 1,042 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +57.5%. In the latest year it moved by +288.

Kemah covers 1.83 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,559 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Kemah is close to the typical town.

What county Kemah is in

All of Kemah's residents live in Galveston County, which had 367,407 residents in 2024. Kemah holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kemah

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kemah by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77565. 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 Kemah is

The Census internal point of Kemah is at 29.528600, -95.020000. Austin, the capital, is 170.9 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is El Lago, TX (2,990 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is League City, TX, 6.0 miles away.

Daylight in Kemah

At 29.53° N, Kemah gets about 14 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kemah

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Clear Lake Shores, 1.3 miles away, with 1,294 people.