Red Oak, North Carolina

Red Oak population, 2020 to 2024

Red Oak added 129 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.8%. In the latest year it moved by +58.

Red Oak covers 19.53 square miles of land, for 178 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Red Oak is less dense than the typical town.

What county Red Oak is in

All of Red Oak's residents live in Nash County, which had 97,990 residents in 2024. Red Oak holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Red Oak

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Red Oak by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27804, 27809, 27856. 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 Red Oak is

The Census internal point of Red Oak is at 36.061300, -77.903800. Raleigh, the capital, is 45.5 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Nashville, NC (5,850 people), 7.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 44.2 miles away.

Daylight in Red Oak

At 36.06° N, Red Oak 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 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Red Oak

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Dortches, 4.3 miles away, with 1,083 people.