{"id":7818,"date":"2023-09-12T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T11:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:30:20","slug":"brazoria-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/brazoria-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazoria County, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazoria County is a county in Texas, United States, about 43 miles south of Houston along the<br \/>\nupper Gulf Coast. It had a population of 372,031 at the 2020 census, an estimated 419,080 more<br \/>\nrecently, and covers 1,358 square miles (3,520 km2) of land centred near 29\u00b010\u2032N 95\u00b026\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Angleton is the county seat; its postal code is 77515. The county holds 18 cities, 2 towns, 4<br \/>\nvillages and 4 census-designated places, and it runs on Central Time. Its FIPS code is 48039.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Brazoria County<\/h2>\n<p>Brazoria County has 28 named places on record: 24 incorporated cities, towns and villages, and<br \/>\n4 census-designated places (CDPs) with no local government of their own. CDP stands for census<br \/>\ndesignated place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Pearland<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>125,828<\/td>\n<td>77584<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lake Jackson<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>28,177<\/td>\n<td>77566<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Alvin<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>27,098<\/td>\n<td>77511<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Angleton<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>19,429<\/td>\n<td>77515<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Freeport<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>10,696<\/td>\n<td>77541<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Clute<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>10,604<\/td>\n<td>77531<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Manvel<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>9,992<\/td>\n<td>77578<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Iowa Colony<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>8,154<\/td>\n<td>77583<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Richwood<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>4,781<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Columbia<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>3,644<\/td>\n<td>77486<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sweeny<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>3,626<\/td>\n<td>77480<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brazoria<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>2,866<\/td>\n<td>77422<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wild Peach Village<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>2,329<\/td>\n<td>77422<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jones Creek<\/td>\n<td>Village<\/td>\n<td>1,975<\/td>\n<td>77541<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Danbury<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,671<\/td>\n<td>77534<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brookside Village<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,548<\/td>\n<td>77581<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rosharon<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>1,362<\/td>\n<td>77583<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oyster Creek<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>1,173<\/td>\n<td>77541<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Holiday Lakes<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>991<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bailey&#8217;s Prairie<\/td>\n<td>Village<\/td>\n<td>775<\/td>\n<td>77515<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hillcrest<\/td>\n<td>Village<\/td>\n<td>705<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Surfside Beach<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>640<\/td>\n<td>77541<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Liverpool<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>475<\/td>\n<td>77577<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Damon<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>436<\/td>\n<td>77430<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sandy Point<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>207<\/td>\n<td>77583<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bonney<\/td>\n<td>Village<\/td>\n<td>180<\/td>\n<td>77515<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>East Columbia<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>128<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Quintana<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<td>77541<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pearland&#8217;s population figure above is citywide &mdash; the city spans Brazoria, Fort Bend<br \/>\nand Harris counties, and only part of its 125,828 residents live on the Brazoria side. Bonney,<br \/>\nthe smallest incorporated place in the county, is also the smallest village in Texas. Richwood<br \/>\nand Hillcrest have no ZIP code of their own; mail there is delivered under a neighboring town&#8217;s<br \/>\ncode.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>77515 &mdash; Angleton (also serves Bailey&#8217;s Prairie and Bonney)<\/li>\n<li>77584 &mdash; Pearland, Brazoria County side<\/li>\n<li>77581 &mdash; Brookside Village, shared with Pearland&#8217;s Harris County side<\/li>\n<li>77566 &mdash; Lake Jackson<\/li>\n<li>77511 &mdash; Alvin<\/li>\n<li>77541 &mdash; Freeport (also serves Oyster Creek, Quintana and Surfside Beach)<\/li>\n<li>77531 &mdash; Clute<\/li>\n<li>77578 &mdash; Manvel (a small portion of Iowa Colony also uses this code)<\/li>\n<li>77583 &mdash; Iowa Colony, Rosharon and Sandy Point<\/li>\n<li>77486 &mdash; West Columbia<\/li>\n<li>77480 &mdash; Sweeny<\/li>\n<li>77422 &mdash; Brazoria and Wild Peach Village<\/li>\n<li>77534 &mdash; Danbury<\/li>\n<li>77577 &mdash; Liverpool<\/li>\n<li>77430 &mdash; Damon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Richwood, Holiday Lakes, Hillcrest and East Columbia have no ZIP code of their own; mail there<br \/>\nis delivered under a neighboring town&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Brazoria County sits on the upper Texas Gulf Coast, a flat coastal plain of prairie, marsh and<br \/>\nbarrier-island beach. Of its 1,358 square miles of land, the county adds another 251 square miles<br \/>\nof water &mdash; bays, sloughs and the Gulf of Mexico shoreline itself, one of the higher<br \/>\nwater shares of any Houston-area county. The Brazos River crosses the county from northwest to<br \/>\nsoutheast, reaching the Gulf near Freeport, and Oyster Creek runs a parallel course through Lake<br \/>\nJackson and Clute. The Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge and part of the San Bernard National<br \/>\nWildlife Refuge protect wetlands along the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Harris County lies to the north, Galveston County to the northeast across the bay, the Gulf of<br \/>\nMexico to the southeast, Matagorda County to the southwest, Wharton County to the west and Fort<br \/>\nBend County to the northwest. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/harris-county\/\">Harris<br \/>\nCounty<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/galveston-county\/\">Galveston County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/matagorda-county\/\">Matagorda County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/wharton-county\/\">Wharton County<\/a> and <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/fort-bend-county\/\">Fort Bend County<\/a> all border Brazoria<br \/>\ndirectly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Brazoria County had a population of 372,031 at the 2020 census, and the county has continued<br \/>\ngrowing since, with an estimate near 419,080 residents in more recent years. Pearland and Lake<br \/>\nJackson are the two largest communities by far, together accounting for a substantial share of<br \/>\nthe county&#8217;s population. Median household income runs about $97,993, well above Texas&#8217;s<br \/>\nstatewide figure of $75,780 (2023 ACS). Population density works out to roughly 274 people per<br \/>\nsquare mile of land, reflecting a county that ranges from dense Houston-suburb growth in the<br \/>\nnorth to sparsely settled farmland and coastline in the south.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Health care and social assistance is the county&#8217;s largest employment sector, with about<br \/>\n27,644 workers, followed by manufacturing at 23,535 and educational services at 20,593. Dow<br \/>\nChemical Company&#8217;s Freeport plant, the largest integrated chemical manufacturing facility<br \/>\nin the United States, anchors the manufacturing base and also employs many Lake Jackson<br \/>\nresidents, the planned community Dow built for its workers in the 1940s. Port Freeport and the<br \/>\nFreeport LNG export terminal add shipping and energy-sector jobs along the coast. Pearland<br \/>\nIndependent School District is the county&#8217;s single largest employer, ahead of Kelsey-Seybold<br \/>\nClinic and the city government. Four Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison units operate<br \/>\nnear Rosharon and Sandy Point, a major source of state jobs in the county&#8217;s northwest.<br \/>\nLake Jackson is also the birthplace and headquarters of Buc-ee&#8217;s, the Texas travel-center<br \/>\nchain. Clute&#8217;s biggest annual event is the Great Texas Mosquito Festival each July, drawing<br \/>\nroughly 18,000 visitors since it began in 1981.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>Mexico organized Brazoria as a municipal district in 1832, and it became one of the original<br \/>\ncounties of the Republic of Texas at independence in 1836. It takes its name from the Brazos<br \/>\nRiver, which crosses it. The county was also the heart of Stephen F. Austin&#8217;s original<br \/>\ncolony, the first major Anglo-American settlement in Texas, beginning in 1821.<\/p>\n<p>West Columbia served as the first capital of the Republic of Texas: its First Congress<br \/>\nconvened there on 3 October 1836, and Sam Houston was inaugurated president there on 22 October<br \/>\nbefore the government moved to the city of Houston the following spring. Brazoria, the<br \/>\ncounty&#8217;s original seat, lost that status to Angleton in 1897 after the railroad bypassed<br \/>\nit; oil and sulfur discoveries in 1939 later revived the town. Dow Chemical&#8217;s arrival at<br \/>\nFreeport in 1939 reshaped the county&#8217;s economy from cotton and cattle toward chemical<br \/>\nmanufacturing, a shift that built Lake Jackson as a planned company town in the early 1940s.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>No interstate highway crosses Brazoria County. State Highway 288, known locally as the Nolan<br \/>\nRyan Expressway, is the main north-south route, linking Angleton, Clute, Lake Jackson and Freeport<br \/>\nto Houston. State Highways 6, 35, 36, 99 and 332 also cross the county.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Houston &mdash; about 43 miles north via SH 288<\/li>\n<li>Rosenberg &mdash; about 41 miles northwest via SH 36<\/li>\n<li>Galveston &mdash; across Galveston Bay to the northeast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>William P. Hobby Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport, both in Houston&#8217;s<br \/>\nHarris County, are the nearest commercial airports. Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport, a<br \/>\ncounty-owned general-aviation field, sits centrally in the county. Brazoria County has no Amtrak<br \/>\nstation; the nearest service is in Houston.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Brazoria County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits on the upper Texas Gulf Coast, about 43 miles south of Houston, bordered by Harris,<br \/>\nGalveston, Matagorda, Wharton and Fort Bend counties and the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Brazoria County?<\/strong><br \/>\n372,031 at the 2020 census, with a more recent estimate near 419,080.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Brazoria County?<\/strong><br \/>\n1,358 square miles of land (3,520 km2), plus 251 square miles of bay and Gulf water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Brazoria County?<\/strong><br \/>\nAngleton, founded in 1890 and named for the wife of a railway manager, has been the county seat<br \/>\nsince 1897.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Brazoria County?<\/strong><br \/>\n24 incorporated cities, towns and villages, led by Pearland, Lake Jackson, Alvin and Angleton,<br \/>\nplus four census-designated places: Damon, East Columbia, Rosharon and Wild Peach Village.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Brazoria County use?<\/strong><br \/>\nFifteen ZIP codes cover the county&#8217;s incorporated places, from 77515 in Angleton to 77422<br \/>\nin Brazoria and Wild Peach Village; see the ZIP Codes section above for the full list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Brazoria County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nDow Chemical&#8217;s Freeport plant, the largest integrated chemical manufacturing facility in the<br \/>\nUnited States, and West Columbia, the first capital of the Republic of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/texas\/\">Towns and<br \/>\nvillages in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazoria County is a county in Texas, United States, about 43 miles south of Houston along the upper Gulf Coast. It had a population of 372,031 at the 2020 census, an estimated 419,080 more recently, and covers 1,358 square miles (3,520 km2) of land centred near 29\u00b010\u2032N 95\u00b026\u2032W. 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