Texas · Census place 4880584

Yorktown, Texas

Yorktown is a city in DeWitt County, Texas with an estimated 1,785 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 646th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,785
#646 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
-1.7%
-30 people
Land area
1.7 sq mi
Density
1,032 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Yorktown. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Yorktown population, 2020 to 2024

Yorktown lost 30 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,814. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Yorktown covers 1.73 square miles of land, for 1,032 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Yorktown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Yorktown is in

All of Yorktown's residents live in DeWitt County, which had 20,252 residents in 2024. Yorktown holds 8.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Yorktown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Yorktown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 78164. 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 Yorktown is

The Census internal point of Yorktown is at 28.982800, -97.505000. Austin, the capital, is 90.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cuero, TX (8,215 people), 15.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Braunfels, TX, 61.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
28.982800, -97.505000
DMS
28°58'58.08"N 97°30'18.00"W
UTM
14N 645645.8E 3207000.8N
Geohash
9v4svhpj0
Plus code
76W4XFMW+42

Daylight in Yorktown

At 28.98° N, Yorktown gets about 14 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Yorktown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Cuero, 15.6 miles away, with 8,215 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Yorktown, TX?

1,785 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 30 (1.7%) from 1,815 in July 2020.

What county is Yorktown in?

DeWitt County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Yorktown?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 78164.

How far is Yorktown from Austin?

90.3 miles (145.4 km) in a straight line, heading N from Yorktown.

What is the nearest larger city to Yorktown?

Cuero, TX, with 8,215 residents, 15.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.