Census Data for Velasco
As far as we can tell, Velasco has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Velasco, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Freeport
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Oyster Creek
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Oyster Creek is located in Brazoria County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oyster Creek
- Quintana
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Surfside Beach
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Clute
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Jones Creek
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Richwood
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Lake Jackson
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Brazoria
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Angleton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Bailey's Prairie
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Bailey's Prairie is located in Brazoria County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey's Prairie
- Danbury
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
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- Holiday Lakes
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Holiday Lakes is located in Brazoria County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Lakes
- Sweeny
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- West Columbia
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Brazoria County ...
Velasco is located in Brazoria County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Brazoria County.
Miscellaneous Information for Velasco ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Brazoria County or the community of Velasco:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Velasco:
- GNIS ID for Velasco: 1381075
- GNIS ID for Brazoria County: 1383805
- GNIS ID for State of Texas: 1779801
- The FIPS Codes ...
- An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
- State Code: 48 (Texas)
- County Code: 039 (Brazoria County)
- Place Code: 75200 (Velasco)
- State & County Code: 48/039 (Texas / Brazoria County)
- State & Place Code: 48/75200 (Texas / Velasco)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Velasco is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #7 (the West South-Central Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Velasco.
Footnotes ...
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