Oklahoma · Census place 4082500

Yale, Oklahoma

Yale is a city in Payne County, Oklahoma with an estimated 1,075 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 201st largest of 212 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,075
#201 of 212 in Oklahoma
Change since 2020
+1.3%
+14 people
Land area
0.9 sq mi
Density
1,168 / sq mi
State median 896
Orange pin: Yale. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Oklahoma City.

Yale population, 2020 to 2024

Yale added 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

1,06120201,06420211,07020221,07420231,0752024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,062. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Yale covers 0.92 square miles of land, for 1,168 people per square mile of land. The median Oklahoma place of 5,000+ has 896, so Yale is denser than the typical town.

What county Yale is in

All of Yale's residents live in Payne County, which had 84,199 residents in 2024. Yale holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Yale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Yale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 74085. 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 Yale is

The Census internal point of Yale is at 36.115100, -96.701100. Oklahoma City, the capital, is 62.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cushing, OK (8,444 people), 9.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tulsa, OK, 44.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
36.115100, -96.701100
DMS
36°06'54.36"N 96°42'3.96"W
UTM
14N 706910.0E 3999162.2N
Geohash
9y7jrw83t
Plus code
8685478X+2H

Daylight in Yale

At 36.12° N, Yale 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 Yale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oklahoma, measured between internal points. The closest is Cushing, 10.0 miles away, with 8,444 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Yale, OK?

1,075 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 14 (1.3%) from 1,061 in July 2020.

What county is Yale in?

Payne County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Yale?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 74085.

How far is Yale from Oklahoma City?

62.2 miles (100.2 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Yale.

What is the nearest larger city to Yale?

Cushing, OK, with 8,444 residents, 9.9 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

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