Royal Oak, Michigan

Royal Oak population, 2020 to 2024

Royal Oak added 195 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +415. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 50th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Royal Oak is 4.8 times that size.

Royal Oak covers 11.79 square miles of land, for 4,941 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Royal Oak is denser than the typical town.

What county Royal Oak is in

All of Royal Oak's residents live in Oakland County, which had 1,296,888 residents in 2024. Royal Oak holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Royal Oak

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Royal Oak by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48067, 48073. 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 Royal Oak is

The Census internal point of Royal Oak is at 42.507800, -83.153900. Lansing, the capital, is 72.9 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Troy, MI (89,209 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Warren, MI, 6.6 miles away.

Daylight in Royal Oak

At 42.51° N, Royal Oak gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Royal Oak

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Berkley, 1.7 miles away, with 15,313 people.