Port Aransas, Texas

Port Aransas population, 2020 to 2024

Port Aransas added 691 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +23.6%. In the latest year it moved by +175.

Port Aransas covers 8.97 square miles of land and 5.06 of water, for 403 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Port Aransas is less dense than the typical town.

What county Port Aransas is in

All of Port Aransas's residents live in Nueces County, which had 353,125 residents in 2024. Port Aransas holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Port Aransas

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Port Aransas by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78373. 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 Port Aransas is

The Census internal point of Port Aransas is at 27.820900, -97.089200. Austin, the capital, is 174.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Aransas Pass, TX (8,742 people), 6.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Corpus Christi, TX, 6.9 miles away.

Daylight in Port Aransas

At 27.82° N, Port Aransas gets about 13 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Port Aransas

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Aransas Pass, 6.6 miles away, with 8,742 people.