Stillwater, Oklahoma

Stillwater population, 2020 to 2024

Stillwater added 1,749 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +314. Among 75 Oklahoma places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 32nd; the median place changed by +2.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oklahoma has 12,358 people, so Stillwater is 4.1 times that size.

Stillwater covers 29.79 square miles of land and 0.51 of water, for 1,683 people per square mile of land. The median Oklahoma place of 5,000+ has 896, so Stillwater is denser than the typical town.

What county Stillwater is in

All of Stillwater's residents live in Payne County, which had 84,199 residents in 2024. Stillwater holds 59.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Stillwater

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Stillwater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 74074, 74075, 74077, 74078. 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 Stillwater is

The Census internal point of Stillwater is at 36.131500, -97.074500. Oklahoma City, the capital, is 50.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Edmond, OK (99,040 people), 36.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Oklahoma City, OK, 52.1 miles away.

Daylight in Stillwater

At 36.13° N, Stillwater gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Stillwater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oklahoma, measured between internal points. The closest is Perkins, 10.8 miles away, with 3,292 people.