Rusk, Texas

Rusk population, 2020 to 2024

Rusk added 153 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +54. Among 384 Texas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 217th; the median place changed by +4.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Texas has 15,345 people, so Rusk is 36% of it.

Rusk covers 7.23 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 768 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Rusk is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rusk is in

All of Rusk's residents live in Cherokee County, which had 53,223 residents in 2024. Rusk holds 10.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rusk

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rusk by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 75785. 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 Rusk is

The Census internal point of Rusk is at 31.797800, -95.148800. Austin, the capital, is 186.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jacksonville, TX (14,639 people), 13.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tyler, TX, 37.0 miles away.

Daylight in Rusk

At 31.80° N, Rusk gets about 14 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rusk

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Alto, 11.1 miles away, with 1,064 people.