Oakes, North Dakota

Oakes population, 2020 to 2024

Oakes lost 5 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.3%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

Oakes covers 1.56 square miles of land, for 1,139 people per square mile of land. The median North Dakota place of 5,000+ has 1,621, so Oakes is less dense than the typical town.

What county Oakes is in

All of Oakes's residents live in Dickey County, which had 4,930 residents in 2024. Oakes holds 36.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oakes

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oakes by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 58474. 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 Oakes is

The Census internal point of Oakes is at 46.139700, -98.087100. Bismarck, the capital, is 136.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lisbon, ND (2,175 people), 28.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fargo, ND, 78.0 miles away.

Daylight in Oakes

At 46.14° N, Oakes gets about 15 h 46 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oakes

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Dakota, measured between internal points. The closest is Ellendale, 23.0 miles away, with 1,139 people.