Pocola, Oklahoma

Pocola population, 2020 to 2024

Pocola added 316 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.4%. In the latest year it moved by +66.

Pocola covers 30.31 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 151 people per square mile of land. The median Oklahoma place of 5,000+ has 896, so Pocola is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pocola is in

All of Pocola's residents live in Le Flore County, which had 49,854 residents in 2024. Pocola holds 9.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pocola

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pocola by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 74902. 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 Pocola is

The Census internal point of Pocola is at 35.251500, -94.467900. Oklahoma City, the capital, is 171.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fort Smith, AR (90,507 people), 8.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, AR, 59.2 miles away.

Daylight in Pocola

At 35.25° N, Pocola gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pocola

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oklahoma, measured between internal points. The closest is Arkoma, 5.5 miles away, with 1,858 people.