Texas · Census place 4871948

Taylor, Texas

Taylor is a city in Williamson County, Texas with an estimated 17,872 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 167th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
17,872
#167 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+8.7%
+1,434 people
Land area
22.6 sq mi
+ 0.12 sq mi water
Density
789 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Taylor. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Taylor population, 2020 to 2024

Taylor added 1,434 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.7%. In the latest year it moved by +415. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 130th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Taylor is 1.2 times that size.

16.4k202016.9k202117.1k202217.5k202317.9k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 16,297. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Taylor covers 22.64 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 789 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Taylor is less dense than the typical town.

What county Taylor is in

All of Taylor's residents live in Williamson County, which had 727,480 residents in 2024. Taylor holds 2.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Taylor

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Taylor by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76574. 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 Taylor is

The Census internal point of Taylor is at 30.572000, -97.430400. Austin, the capital, is 27.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hutto, TX (42,661 people), 7.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Round Rock, TX, 14.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
30.572000, -97.430400
DMS
30°34'19.20"N 97°25'49.44"W
UTM
14N 650517.7E 3383219.1N
Geohash
9v6tyvmqg
Plus code
8624HHC9+RR

Daylight in Taylor

At 30.57° N, Taylor gets about 14 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Taylor

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Hutto, 7.1 miles away, with 42,661 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Taylor, TX?

17,872 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 1,434 (8.7%) from 16,438 in July 2020.

What county is Taylor in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Taylor?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 76574.

How far is Taylor from Austin?

27.6 miles (44.5 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Taylor.

What is the nearest larger city to Taylor?

Hutto, TX, with 42,661 residents, 7.1 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.