Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Tahlequah population, 2020 to 2024

Tahlequah added 856 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by +263. Among 75 Oklahoma places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 25th; the median place changed by +2.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oklahoma has 12,358 people, so Tahlequah is 1.4 times that size.

Tahlequah covers 12.77 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 1,356 people per square mile of land. The median Oklahoma place of 5,000+ has 896, so Tahlequah is denser than the typical town.

What county Tahlequah is in

All of Tahlequah's residents live in Cherokee County, which had 48,729 residents in 2024. Tahlequah holds 35.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tahlequah

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Tahlequah by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 74464. 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 Tahlequah is

The Census internal point of Tahlequah is at 35.910500, -94.977700. Oklahoma City, the capital, is 144.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Muskogee, OK (36,849 people), 24.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Broken Arrow, OK, 45.7 miles away.

Daylight in Tahlequah

At 35.91° N, Tahlequah 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 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Tahlequah

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oklahoma, measured between internal points. The closest is Fort Gibson, 18.1 miles away, with 3,814 people.