Rockdale, Texas

Rockdale population, 2020 to 2024

Rockdale added 306 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.7%. In the latest year it moved by +7. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 170th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Rockdale is 37% of it.

Rockdale covers 4.29 square miles of land, for 1,314 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Rockdale is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rockdale is in

All of Rockdale's residents live in Milam County, which had 26,159 residents in 2024. Rockdale holds 21.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockdale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rockdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76567. 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 Rockdale is

The Census internal point of Rockdale is at 30.655700, -97.008500. Austin, the capital, is 50.9 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Taylor, TX (17,872 people), 25.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Round Rock, TX, 40.0 miles away.

Daylight in Rockdale

At 30.66° N, Rockdale gets about 14 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rockdale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Thorndale, 12.1 miles away, with 1,388 people.