Cushing, Oklahoma

Cushing population, 2020 to 2024

Cushing added 126 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +11. Among 75 Oklahoma places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by +2.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oklahoma has 12,358 people, so Cushing is 68% of it.

Cushing covers 7.60 square miles of land, for 1,111 people per square mile of land. The median Oklahoma place of 5,000+ has 896, so Cushing is denser than the typical town.

What county Cushing is in

All of Cushing's residents live in Payne County, which had 84,199 residents in 2024. Cushing holds 10.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cushing

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cushing by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 74023. 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 Cushing is

The Census internal point of Cushing is at 35.979700, -96.761800. Oklahoma City, the capital, is 53.5 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Stillwater, OK (50,138 people), 20.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tulsa, OK, 49.1 miles away.

Daylight in Cushing

At 35.98° N, Cushing gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 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 Cushing

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oklahoma, measured between internal points. The closest is Drumright, 9.2 miles away, with 2,527 people.