Oklahoma · Census place 4005800

Bethel Acres, Oklahoma

Bethel Acres is a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma with an estimated 3,270 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 103rd largest of 212 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,270
#103 of 212 in Oklahoma
Change since 2020
+7.4%
+225 people
Land area
28.3 sq mi
Density
116 / sq mi
State median 896
Orange pin: Bethel Acres. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Oklahoma City.

Bethel Acres population, 2020 to 2024

Bethel Acres added 225 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.4%. In the latest year it moved by +61.

3,04520203,10820213,15720223,20920233,2702024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,032. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Bethel Acres covers 28.27 square miles of land, for 116 people per square mile of land. The median Oklahoma place of 5,000+ has 896, so Bethel Acres is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bethel Acres is in

All of Bethel Acres's residents live in Pottawatomie County, which had 74,446 residents in 2024. Bethel Acres holds 4.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bethel Acres

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Bethel Acres by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 74801, 74851. 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 Bethel Acres is

The Census internal point of Bethel Acres is at 35.311400, -97.045100. Oklahoma City, the capital, is 28.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Shawnee, OK (32,092 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Norman, OK, 17.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.311400, -97.045100
DMS
35°18'41.04"N 97°02'42.36"W
UTM
14N 677720.9E 3909329.9N
Geohash
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Plus code
86748X63+HX

Daylight in Bethel Acres

At 35.31° N, Bethel Acres gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bethel Acres

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oklahoma, measured between internal points. The closest is Pink, 6.3 miles away, with 2,179 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Bethel Acres, OK?

3,270 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 225 (7.4%) from 3,045 in July 2020.

What county is Bethel Acres in?

Pottawatomie County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Bethel Acres?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 74801, 74851.

How far is Bethel Acres from Oklahoma City?

28.6 miles (46.1 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Bethel Acres.

What is the nearest larger city to Bethel Acres?

Shawnee, OK, with 32,092 residents, 6.4 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.