Rockwall, Texas

Rockwall population, 2020 to 2024

Rockwall added 5,799 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.1%. In the latest year it moved by +470. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 105th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Rockwall is 3.5 times that size.

Rockwall covers 29.59 square miles of land and 0.50 of water, for 1,810 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Rockwall is denser than the typical town.

What county Rockwall is in

All of Rockwall's residents live in Rockwall County, which had 137,044 residents in 2024. Rockwall holds 39.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockwall

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Rockwall by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75032, 75087. 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 Rockwall is

The Census internal point of Rockwall is at 32.918100, -96.438000. Austin, the capital, is 198.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rowlett, TX (68,123 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Garland, TX, 11.2 miles away.

Daylight in Rockwall

At 32.92° N, Rockwall gets about 14 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rockwall

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Fate, 3.8 miles away, with 27,467 people.