Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Woonsocket population, 2020 to 2024

Woonsocket added 1,347 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +938. Among 8 Rhode Island places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Rhode Island has 62,479 people, so Woonsocket is 71% of it.

Woonsocket covers 7.75 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 5,743 people per square mile of land. The median Rhode Island place of 5,000+ has 4,677, so Woonsocket is denser than the typical town.

What county Woonsocket is in

All of Woonsocket's residents live in Providence County, which had 675,912 residents in 2024. Woonsocket holds 6.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Woonsocket

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Woonsocket by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 02895. 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 Woonsocket is

The Census internal point of Woonsocket is at 42.001700, -71.499900. Providence, the capital, is 12.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pawtucket, RI (76,996 people), 10.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Providence, RI, 13.0 miles away.

Daylight in Woonsocket

At 42.00° N, Woonsocket gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Woonsocket

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Rhode Island, measured between internal points. The closest is Central Falls, 9.5 miles away, with 23,034 people.