Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Oak Ridge population, 2020 to 2024

Oak Ridge added 2,578 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.2%. In the latest year it moved by +589. Among 104 Tennessee places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Tennessee has 12,136 people, so Oak Ridge is 2.8 times that size.

Oak Ridge covers 85.25 square miles of land and 4.70 of water, for 399 people per square mile of land. The median Tennessee place of 5,000+ has 947, so Oak Ridge is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Oak Ridge spans

Oak Ridge crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 34,039 residents as follows; Anderson County holds 88.1% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oak Ridge

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oak Ridge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 37830. 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 Oak Ridge is

The Census internal point of Oak Ridge is at 35.966500, -84.290500. Nashville, the capital, is 139.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Knoxville, TN (198,722 people), 19.1 miles away.

Daylight in Oak Ridge

At 35.97° N, Oak Ridge 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 Oak Ridge

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Tennessee, measured between internal points. The closest is Oliver Springs, 5.5 miles away, with 3,433 people.