Temple, Texas

Temple population, 2020 to 2024

Temple added 13,468 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +16.3%. In the latest year it moved by +2,935. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 83rd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Temple is 6.3 times that size.

Temple covers 73.04 square miles of land and 4.84 of water, for 1,318 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Temple is less dense than the typical town.

What county Temple is in

All of Temple's residents live in Bell County, which had 399,578 residents in 2024. Temple holds 24.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Temple

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Temple by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76501, 76502, 76504. 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 Temple is

The Census internal point of Temple is at 31.104900, -97.388500. Austin, the capital, is 61.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Killeen, TX (160,616 people), 20.4 miles away.

Daylight in Temple

At 31.10° N, Temple gets about 14 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Temple

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Morgan's Point Resort, 5.4 miles away, with 4,771 people.