Ruston, Louisiana

Ruston population, 2020 to 2024

Ruston added 174 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -12. Among 59 Louisiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by -2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Louisiana has 11,686 people, so Ruston is 1.9 times that size.

Ruston covers 21.19 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,054 people per square mile of land. The median Louisiana place of 5,000+ has 1,568, so Ruston is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ruston is in

All of Ruston's residents live in Lincoln Parish, which had 48,243 residents in 2024. Ruston holds 46.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ruston

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Ruston by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 71270, 71272. 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 Ruston is

The Census internal point of Ruston is at 32.533000, -92.635300. Baton Rouge, the capital, is 166.9 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Monroe, LA (46,622 people), 32.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Shreveport, LA, 67.5 miles away.

Daylight in Ruston

At 32.53° N, Ruston gets about 14 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ruston

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Louisiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Grambling, 4.3 miles away, with 5,278 people.