Runaway Bay, Texas

Runaway Bay population, 2020 to 2024

Runaway Bay added 566 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +36.4%. In the latest year it moved by +131.

Runaway Bay covers 2.52 square miles of land and 4.27 of water, for 842 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Runaway Bay is less dense than the typical town.

What county Runaway Bay is in

All of Runaway Bay's residents live in Wise County, which had 81,275 residents in 2024. Runaway Bay holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Runaway Bay

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Runaway Bay by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76426. 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 Runaway Bay is

The Census internal point of Runaway Bay is at 33.175400, -97.874800. Austin, the capital, is 200.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bridgeport, TX (6,763 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Worth, TX, 40.8 miles away.

Daylight in Runaway Bay

At 33.18° N, Runaway Bay gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Runaway Bay

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Bridgeport, 6.4 miles away, with 6,763 people.