Richmond, Texas

Richmond population, 2020 to 2024

Richmond added 1,686 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.5%. In the latest year it moved by +269. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 92nd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Richmond is 87% of it.

Richmond covers 4.31 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 3,087 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Richmond is denser than the typical town.

What county Richmond is in

All of Richmond's residents live in Fort Bend County, which had 958,434 residents in 2024. Richmond holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Richmond

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Richmond by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77406, 77469. 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 Richmond is

The Census internal point of Richmond is at 29.581200, -95.760500. Austin, the capital, is 127.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rosenberg, TX (42,571 people), 4.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sugar Land, TX, 7.6 miles away.

Daylight in Richmond

At 29.58° N, Richmond gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Richmond

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Rosenberg, 4.2 miles away, with 42,571 people.