Texas · Census place 4850472

Navasota, Texas

Navasota is a city in Grimes County, Texas with an estimated 9,471 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 263rd largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
9,471
#263 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+22.5%
+1,741 people
Land area
8.4 sq mi
+ 0.04 sq mi water
Density
1,134 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Navasota. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Navasota population, 2020 to 2024

Navasota added 1,741 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +22.5%. In the latest year it moved by +515. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 65th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Navasota is 62% of it.

7,73020208,12120218,41920228,95620239,4712024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 7,655. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Navasota covers 8.35 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,134 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Navasota is less dense than the typical town.

What county Navasota is in

All of Navasota's residents live in Grimes County, which had 33,448 residents in 2024. Navasota holds 28.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Navasota

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Navasota by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77868. 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 Navasota is

The Census internal point of Navasota is at 30.386400, -96.090700. Austin, the capital, is 98.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is College Station, TX (128,023 people), 18.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
30.386400, -96.090700
DMS
30°23'11.04"N 96°05'26.52"W
UTM
14N 779560.9E 3365195.0N
Geohash
9v7sv7svs
Plus code
86259WP5+HP

Daylight in Navasota

At 30.39° N, Navasota 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 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Navasota

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is College Station, 18.4 miles away, with 128,023 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Navasota, TX?

9,471 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 1,741 (22.5%) from 7,730 in July 2020.

What county is Navasota in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Navasota?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 77868.

How far is Navasota from Austin?

98.7 miles (158.8 km) in a straight line, heading W from Navasota.

What is the nearest larger city to Navasota?

College Station, TX, with 128,023 residents, 18.4 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.