About the town » Bastrop, Bastrop County, Texas, United States

Bastrop is a city and the county seat of Bastrop County, Texas, United States. Located about thirty miles southeast of Austin, it is part of the Greater Austin metropolitan area. The population was 5,340 according to the 2000 census, and had grown to 7,218 by the 2010 census—nearly twice the population of the early 1970s.