Red Oak, Texas

Red Oak population, 2020 to 2024

Red Oak added 4,963 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +34.5%. In the latest year it moved by +718. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 40th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Red Oak is 1.3 times that size.

Red Oak covers 16.24 square miles of land, for 1,192 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Red Oak is less dense than the typical town.

What county Red Oak is in

All of Red Oak's residents live in Ellis County, which had 232,387 residents in 2024. Red Oak holds 8.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Red Oak

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Red Oak by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75154. 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 Red Oak is

The Census internal point of Red Oak is at 32.509600, -96.784000. Austin, the capital, is 164.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Glenn Heights, TX (19,752 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Prairie, TX, 18.4 miles away.

Daylight in Red Oak

At 32.51° N, Red Oak gets about 14 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Red Oak

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Oak Leaf, 3.9 miles away, with 1,685 people.