Texas · Census place 4867136

Shallowater, Texas

Shallowater is a city in Lubbock County, Texas with an estimated 2,972 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 499th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,972
#499 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+0.1%
+2 people
Land area
1.6 sq mi
Density
1,835 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Shallowater. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

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Shallowater population, 2020 to 2024

Shallowater added 2 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +28.

2,97020202,94820212,94520222,94420232,9722024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,966. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Shallowater covers 1.62 square miles of land, for 1,835 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Shallowater is denser than the typical town.

What county Shallowater is in

All of Shallowater's residents live in Lubbock County, which had 327,394 residents in 2024. Shallowater holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shallowater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shallowater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 79363. 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 Shallowater is

The Census internal point of Shallowater is at 33.690100, -101.989300. Austin, the capital, is 343.0 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lubbock, TX (272,086 people), 10.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
33.690100, -101.989300
DMS
33°41'24.36"N 101°59'21.48"W
UTM
14N 222897.5E 3731807.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
855WM2R6+27

Daylight in Shallowater

At 33.69° N, Shallowater gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shallowater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Lubbock, 10.6 miles away, with 272,086 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Shallowater, TX?

2,972 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 2 (0.1%) from 2,970 in July 2020.

What county is Shallowater in?

Lubbock County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Shallowater?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 79363.

How far is Shallowater from Austin?

343.0 miles (552.1 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Shallowater.

What is the nearest larger city to Shallowater?

Lubbock, TX, with 272,086 residents, 10.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.