West University Place, Texas

West University Place population, 2020 to 2024

West University Place added 137 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +146. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 273rd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so West University Place is 99% of it.

West University Place covers 2.00 square miles of land, for 7,575 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so West University Place is denser than the typical town.

What county West University Place is in

All of West University Place's residents live in Harris County, which had 5,009,302 residents in 2024. West University Place holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in West University Place

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps West University Place by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77005. 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 West University Place is

The Census internal point of West University Place is at 29.715400, -95.431600. Austin, the capital, is 143.4 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bellaire, TX (17,439 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Houston, TX, 5.5 miles away.

Daylight in West University Place

At 29.72° N, West University Place gets about 14 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near West University Place

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Southside Place, 0.5 miles away, with 1,908 people.