Oregon · Census place 4115950

Cottage Grove, Oregon

Cottage Grove is a city in Lane County, Oregon with an estimated 10,690 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 50th largest of 165 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
10,690
#50 of 165 in Oregon
Change since 2020
+0.5%
+48 people
Land area
3.9 sq mi
+ 0.03 sq mi water
Density
2,755 / sq mi
State median 3,097
Orange pin: Cottage Grove. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Salem.

Cottage Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Cottage Grove added 48 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -21. Among 80 Oregon places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 46th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oregon has 14,915 people, so Cottage Grove is 72% of it.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 10,597. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Cottage Grove covers 3.88 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 2,755 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Cottage Grove is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cottage Grove is in

All of Cottage Grove's residents live in Lane County, which had 382,396 residents in 2024. Cottage Grove holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cottage Grove

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cottage Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97424. 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 Cottage Grove is

The Census internal point of Cottage Grove is at 43.795900, -123.057200. Salem, the capital, is 79.0 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Springfield, OR (61,182 people), 18.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Eugene, OR, 18.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
43.795900, -123.057200
DMS
43°47'45.24"N 123°03'25.92"W
UTM
10N 495398.3E 4849205.9N
Geohash
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Plus code
84MRQWWV+94

Daylight in Cottage Grove

At 43.80° N, Cottage Grove gets about 15 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cottage Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Creswell, 9.0 miles away, with 5,615 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Cottage Grove, OR?

10,690 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 48 (0.5%) from 10,642 in July 2020.

What county is Cottage Grove in?

Lane County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Cottage Grove?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 97424.

How far is Cottage Grove from Salem?

79.0 miles (127.1 km) in a straight line, heading N from Cottage Grove.

What is the nearest larger city to Cottage Grove?

Springfield, OR, with 61,182 residents, 18.2 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.