Watauga, Texas

Watauga population, 2020 to 2024

Watauga lost 475 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +38. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 353rd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Watauga is 1.5 times that size.

Watauga covers 4.16 square miles of land, for 5,558 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Watauga is denser than the typical town.

What county Watauga is in

All of Watauga's residents live in Tarrant County, which had 2,230,708 residents in 2024. Watauga 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 Watauga

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Watauga by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 76148. 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 Watauga is

The Census internal point of Watauga is at 32.871800, -97.251500. Austin, the capital, is 181.8 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Richland Hills, TX (71,436 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Worth, TX, 8.4 miles away.

Daylight in Watauga

At 32.87° N, Watauga gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Watauga

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is North Richland Hills, 2.0 miles away, with 71,436 people.