Prairie View, Texas

Prairie View population, 2020 to 2024

Prairie View added 474 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.8%. In the latest year it moved by +17. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 169th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Prairie View is 56% of it.

Prairie View covers 7.40 square miles of land, for 1,171 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Prairie View is less dense than the typical town.

What county Prairie View is in

All of Prairie View's residents live in Waller County, which had 65,109 residents in 2024. Prairie View holds 13.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Prairie View

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Prairie View by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77445, 77446, 77484. 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 Prairie View is

The Census internal point of Prairie View is at 30.082900, -95.977100. Austin, the capital, is 106.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tomball, TX (15,152 people), 21.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Conroe, TX, 34.0 miles away.

Daylight in Prairie View

At 30.08° N, Prairie View 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 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Prairie View

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Waller, 2.8 miles away, with 4,138 people.