Poteau, Oklahoma

Poteau population, 2020 to 2024

Poteau added 290 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.3%. In the latest year it moved by +39. Among 75 Oklahoma places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 33rd; the median place changed by +2.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oklahoma has 12,358 people, so Poteau is 74% of it.

Poteau covers 26.60 square miles of land and 2.12 of water, for 343 people per square mile of land. The median Oklahoma place of 5,000+ has 896, so Poteau is less dense than the typical town.

What county Poteau is in

All of Poteau's residents live in Le Flore County, which had 49,854 residents in 2024. Poteau holds 18.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Poteau

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Poteau by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 74940, 74953. 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 Poteau is

The Census internal point of Poteau is at 35.066700, -94.610300. Oklahoma City, the capital, is 165.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenwood, AR (9,730 people), 23.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, AR, 73.8 miles away.

Daylight in Poteau

At 35.07° N, Poteau gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Poteau

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oklahoma, measured between internal points. The closest is Shady Point, 5.3 miles away, with 1,000 people.