Ponca City, Oklahoma

Ponca City population, 2020 to 2024

Ponca City lost 137 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by -63. Among 75 Oklahoma places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 62nd; the median place changed by +2.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oklahoma has 12,358 people, so Ponca City is 2.0 times that size.

Ponca City covers 18.38 square miles of land and 1.23 of water, for 1,318 people per square mile of land. The median Oklahoma place of 5,000+ has 896, so Ponca City is denser than the typical town.

What county Ponca City is in

All of Ponca City's residents live in Kay County, which had 43,437 residents in 2024. Ponca City holds 55.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ponca City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Ponca City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 74601, 74604. 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 Ponca City is

The Census internal point of Ponca City is at 36.721000, -97.068400. Oklahoma City, the capital, is 88.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Stillwater, OK (50,138 people), 40.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wichita, KS, 68.7 miles away.

Daylight in Ponca City

At 36.72° N, Ponca City gets about 14 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ponca City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oklahoma, measured between internal points. The closest is Newkirk, 11.1 miles away, with 2,243 people.