Port Neches, Texas

Port Neches population, 2020 to 2024

Port Neches added 27 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +56. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 300th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Port Neches is 89% of it.

Port Neches covers 8.59 square miles of land and 0.52 of water, for 1,596 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Port Neches is close to the typical town.

What county Port Neches is in

All of Port Neches's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 253,948 residents in 2024. Port Neches holds 5.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Port Neches

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Port Neches by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77651. 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 Neches is

The Census internal point of Port Neches is at 29.960800, -93.961800. Austin, the capital, is 226.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Nederland, TX (18,168 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Beaumont, TX, 13.9 miles away.

Daylight in Port Neches

At 29.96° N, Port Neches gets about 14 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Port Neches

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Nederland, 2.5 miles away, with 18,168 people.