Portland, Indiana

Portland population, 2020 to 2024

Portland lost 100 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +30. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 114th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Portland is 43% of it.

Portland covers 4.87 square miles of land, for 1,280 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Portland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Portland is in

All of Portland's residents live in Jay County, which had 20,164 residents in 2024. Portland holds 30.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Portland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Portland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 47371. 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 Portland is

The Census internal point of Portland is at 40.437700, -84.983500. Indianapolis, the capital, is 77.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bluffton, IN (10,556 people), 23.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Wayne, IN, 45.7 miles away.

Daylight in Portland

At 40.44° N, Portland gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Portland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Redkey, 10.9 miles away, with 1,075 people.