Universal City, Texas

Universal City population, 2020 to 2024

Universal City added 514 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +141. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 221st; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Universal City is 1.3 times that size.

Universal City covers 5.64 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 3,593 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Universal City is denser than the typical town.

What county Universal City is in

All of Universal City's residents live in Bexar County, which had 2,127,737 residents in 2024. Universal City holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Universal City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Universal City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78148. 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 Universal City is

The Census internal point of Universal City is at 29.552000, -98.307600. Austin, the capital, is 60.4 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Converse, TX (31,400 people), 2.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is San Antonio, TX, 14.4 miles away.

Daylight in Universal City

At 29.55° N, Universal City 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 Universal City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Live Oak, 2.0 miles away, with 16,218 people.