Texas · Census place 4868828
Sour Lake, Texas
Sour Lake is a city in Hardin County, Texas with an estimated 1,845 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 636th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,845
- #636 of 804 in Texas
- Change since 2020
- +3.8%
- +68 people
- Land area
- 2.3 sq mi
- + 0.04 sq mi water
- Density
- 802 / sq mi
- State median 1,561
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Sour Lake population, 2020 to 2024
Sour Lake added 68 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.8%. In the latest year it moved by -1.
Sour Lake covers 2.30 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 802 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Sour Lake is less dense than the typical town.
What county Sour Lake is in
All of Sour Lake's residents live in Hardin County, which had 58,670 residents in 2024. Sour Lake holds 3.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Sour Lake
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sour Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77659. 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 Sour Lake is
The Census internal point of Sour Lake is at 30.137700, -94.404300. Austin, the capital, is 199.4 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lumberton, TX (14,255 people), 14.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Beaumont, TX, 15.9 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 30.137700, -94.404300
- DMS
- 30°08'15.72"N 94°24'15.48"W
- UTM
- 15N 364739.1E 3334876.1N
- Geohash
- 9vkg7y2uu
- Plus code
- 86274HQW+37
Daylight in Sour Lake
At 30.14° N, Sour Lake gets about 14 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Sour Lake
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is China, 7.8 miles away, with 1,298 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Sour Lake, TX?
1,845 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 68 (3.8%) from 1,777 in July 2020.
What county is Sour Lake in?
Hardin County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Sour Lake?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 77659.
How far is Sour Lake from Austin?
199.4 miles (320.9 km) in a straight line, heading W from Sour Lake.
What is the nearest larger city to Sour Lake?
Lumberton, TX, with 14,255 residents, 14.2 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.