Brookings, Oregon

Brookings population, 2020 to 2024

Brookings lost 268 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.0%. In the latest year it moved by -156. Among 80 Oregon places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 80th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oregon has 14,915 people, so Brookings is 44% of it.

Brookings covers 4.15 square miles of land, for 1,565 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Brookings is less dense than the typical town.

What county Brookings is in

All of Brookings's residents live in Curry County, which had 22,774 residents in 2024. Brookings holds 28.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brookings

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brookings by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97415. 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 Brookings is

The Census internal point of Brookings is at 42.072400, -124.304900. Salem, the capital, is 208.1 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Grants Pass, OR (39,468 people), 55.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Eugene, OR, 149.6 miles away.

Daylight in Brookings

At 42.07° N, Brookings gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brookings

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Gold Beach, 24.3 miles away, with 2,272 people.