Santa Fe, Texas

Santa Fe population, 2020 to 2024

Santa Fe added 377 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +115. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 211th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Santa Fe is 86% of it.

Santa Fe covers 16.99 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 773 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Santa Fe is less dense than the typical town.

What county Santa Fe is in

All of Santa Fe's residents live in Galveston County, which had 367,407 residents in 2024. Santa Fe holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Santa Fe

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Santa Fe by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77510, 77517. 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 Santa Fe is

The Census internal point of Santa Fe is at 29.387600, -95.101500. Austin, the capital, is 169.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dickinson, TX (21,941 people), 5.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is League City, TX, 7.1 miles away.

Daylight in Santa Fe

At 29.39° N, Santa Fe gets about 14 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Santa Fe

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Dickinson, 5.2 miles away, with 21,941 people.