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Red Oak, Texas

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The city of Red Oak is located in Ellis County.

Red Oak is 160 feet [48.77 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Red Oak lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Red Oak can be found in:

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At the time of the 2000 Census, Red Oak had a population of 4,301 people<2> (or 3.83% of the total population of Ellis County).

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Red Oak had a population of 9,255 people. This is an increase of 115.18% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Red Oak.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
20089,255+115.18%+6.37% since 2007
20078,701+102.3%+9.82% since 2006
20067,923+84.21%+11.01% since 2005
20057,137+65.94% 
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20004,301The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Balch Springs   NE18 mi [28.97 km]20,0033.24% increase
 Cedar Hill   NW9 mi [14.48 km]44,78639.55% increase
 Dallas   N19 mi [30.58 km]1,279,9107.68% increase
 DeSoto   NW6 mi [9.66 km]47,56826.36% increase
 Duncanville   NW10 mi [16.09 km]36,109---
 Ennis   SE16 mi [25.75 km]19,50621.57% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Red Oak.

Website for Red Oak

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Red Oak or Ellis County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.


Official Website:   www.redoaktx.org/
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For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Red Oak? Please visit the Map Page for Red Oak.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Red Oak - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Red Oak.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Red Oak and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<4>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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