Rockport, Texas

Rockport population, 2020 to 2024

Rockport added 911 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.0%. In the latest year it moved by +138. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 126th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Rockport is 72% of it.

Rockport covers 16.55 square miles of land and 4.55 of water, for 669 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Rockport is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rockport is in

All of Rockport's residents live in Aransas County, which had 25,595 residents in 2024. Rockport holds 43.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockport

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rockport by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78382. 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 Rockport is

The Census internal point of Rockport is at 28.047600, -97.050000. Austin, the capital, is 159.4 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Portland, TX (20,725 people), 20.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Corpus Christi, TX, 21.6 miles away.

Daylight in Rockport

At 28.05° N, Rockport gets about 13 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rockport

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Fulton, 1.8 miles away, with 1,612 people.