Wharton, Texas

Wharton population, 2020 to 2024

Wharton added 106 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by -40. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 262nd; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Wharton is 57% of it.

Wharton covers 8.31 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,054 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Wharton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wharton is in

All of Wharton's residents live in Wharton County, which had 42,035 residents in 2024. Wharton holds 20.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wharton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wharton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 77488. 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 Wharton is

The Census internal point of Wharton is at 29.317600, -96.102300. Austin, the capital, is 118.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is El Campo, TX (12,176 people), 13.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sugar Land, TX, 34.0 miles away.

Daylight in Wharton

At 29.32° N, Wharton gets about 14 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wharton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is El Campo, 13.0 miles away, with 12,176 people.