Oak Ridge, North Carolina

Oak Ridge population, 2020 to 2024

Oak Ridge added 259 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +80. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 93rd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Oak Ridge is 54% of it.

Oak Ridge covers 16.75 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 472 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Oak Ridge is less dense than the typical town.

What county Oak Ridge is in

All of Oak Ridge's residents live in Guilford County, which had 558,816 residents in 2024. Oak Ridge holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oak Ridge

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oak Ridge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27310. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Oak Ridge is

The Census internal point of Oak Ridge is at 36.174100, -79.992200. Raleigh, the capital, is 80.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Summerfield, NC (11,333 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greensboro, NC, 10.9 miles away.

Daylight in Oak Ridge

At 36.17° N, Oak Ridge gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oak Ridge

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Stokesdale, 3.8 miles away, with 6,111 people.