Texas · Census place 4838800

Kempner, Texas

Kempner is a city in Lampasas County, Texas with an estimated 1,283 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 742nd largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,283
#742 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+11.5%
+132 people
Land area
2.1 sq mi
Density
626 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Kempner. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Kempner population, 2020 to 2024

Kempner added 132 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.5%. In the latest year it moved by +18.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,146. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Kempner covers 2.05 square miles of land, for 626 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Kempner is less dense than the typical town.

What county Kempner is in

All of Kempner's residents live in Lampasas County, which had 23,539 residents in 2024. Kempner holds 5.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kempner

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Kempner by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76522, 76539. 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 Kempner is

The Census internal point of Kempner is at 31.075500, -97.972700. Austin, the capital, is 57.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Copperas Cove, TX (39,627 people), 4.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Killeen, TX, 14.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
31.075500, -97.972700
DMS
31°04'31.80"N 97°58'21.72"W
UTM
14N 597997.4E 3438422.8N
Geohash
9vd2f947y
Plus code
863432GG+6W

Daylight in Kempner

At 31.08° N, Kempner gets about 14 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kempner

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Copperas Cove, 4.6 miles away, with 39,627 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Kempner, TX?

1,283 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 132 (11.5%) from 1,151 in July 2020.

What county is Kempner in?

Lampasas County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Kempner?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 76522, 76539.

How far is Kempner from Austin?

57.1 miles (91.9 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Kempner.

What is the nearest larger city to Kempner?

Copperas Cove, TX, with 39,627 residents, 4.6 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.