Waxahachie, Texas

Waxahachie population, 2020 to 2024

Waxahachie added 6,998 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +16.8%. In the latest year it moved by +1,387. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 82nd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Waxahachie is 3.2 times that size.

Waxahachie covers 49.76 square miles of land and 1.25 of water, for 977 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Waxahachie is less dense than the typical town.

What county Waxahachie is in

All of Waxahachie's residents live in Ellis County, which had 232,387 residents in 2024. Waxahachie holds 20.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waxahachie

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Waxahachie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75165, 75167. 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 Waxahachie is

The Census internal point of Waxahachie is at 32.402500, -96.844500. Austin, the capital, is 156.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is DeSoto, TX (56,711 people), 13.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Prairie, TX, 22.1 miles away.

Daylight in Waxahachie

At 32.40° N, Waxahachie gets about 14 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Waxahachie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Red Oak, 8.2 miles away, with 19,365 people.