Lake Jackson, Texas

Lake Jackson population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Jackson added 10 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +232. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 308th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Lake Jackson is 1.8 times that size.

Lake Jackson covers 19.74 square miles of land and 1.48 of water, for 1,426 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Lake Jackson is close to the typical town.

What county Lake Jackson is in

All of Lake Jackson's residents live in Brazoria County, which had 413,224 residents in 2024. Lake Jackson holds 6.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Jackson

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lake Jackson by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77515, 77566. 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 Lake Jackson is

The Census internal point of Lake Jackson is at 29.050900, -95.451200. Austin, the capital, is 161.3 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Alvin, TX (29,869 people), 29.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pearland, TX, 35.7 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Jackson

At 29.05° N, Lake Jackson gets about 14 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Jackson

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Richwood, 3.1 miles away, with 4,835 people.