Oxford, North Carolina

Oxford population, 2020 to 2024

Oxford added 195 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by -7. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 108th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Oxford is 62% of it.

Oxford covers 6.40 square miles of land, for 1,402 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Oxford is close to the typical town.

What county Oxford is in

All of Oxford's residents live in Granville County, which had 61,544 residents in 2024. Oxford holds 14.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oxford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oxford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27565. 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 Oxford is

The Census internal point of Oxford is at 36.321700, -78.586500. Raleigh, the capital, is 37.5 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Henderson, NC (14,807 people), 9.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Durham, NC, 29.5 miles away.

Daylight in Oxford

At 36.32° N, Oxford gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oxford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Henderson, 9.6 miles away, with 14,807 people.