Stafford, Texas

Stafford population, 2020 to 2024

Stafford lost 70 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +30. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 319th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Stafford is 1.1 times that size.

Stafford covers 7.01 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,504 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Stafford is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Stafford spans

Stafford crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 17,555 residents as follows; Fort Bend County holds 98.5% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Stafford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Stafford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77477. 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 Stafford is

The Census internal point of Stafford is at 29.625700, -95.565700. Austin, the capital, is 137.7 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sugar Land, TX (109,851 people), 4.7 miles away.

Daylight in Stafford

At 29.63° N, Stafford gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Stafford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Meadows Place, 2.2 miles away, with 4,630 people.