Texas · Census place 4839868

Kountze, Texas

Kountze is a city in Hardin County, Texas with an estimated 2,125 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 587th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024: 2,125; #587 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020: +8.4%; +165 people
Land area: 4.0 sq mi
Density: 534 / sq mi; State median 1,561

Orange pin: Kountze. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

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Kountze population, 2020 to 2024

Kountze added 165 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.4%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,960. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Kountze covers 3.98 square miles of land, for 534 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Kountze is less dense than the typical town.

What county Kountze is in

All of Kountze's residents live in Hardin County, which had 58,670 residents in 2024. Kountze holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kountze

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kountze by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77625. 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 Kountze is

The Census internal point of Kountze is at 30.372500, -94.315700. Austin, the capital, is 204.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Silsbee, TX (6,711 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Beaumont, TX, 22.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal: 30.372500, -94.315700
DMS: 30°22'21.00"N 94°18'56.52"W
UTM: 15N 373574.9E 3360796.6N
Geohash: 9vkuvc1ks
Plus code: 86279MFM+2P

Daylight in Kountze

At 30.37° N, Kountze 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 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kountze

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Silsbee, 8.5 miles away, with 6,711 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Kountze, TX?

2,125 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 165 (8.4%) from 1,960 in July 2020.

What county is Kountze in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Kountze?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 77625.

How far is Kountze from Austin?

204.3 miles (328.8 km) in a straight line, heading W from Kountze.

What is the nearest larger city to Kountze?

Silsbee, TX, with 6,711 residents, 8.5 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.

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