Oregon · Census place 4120500

Drain, Oregon

Drain is a city in Douglas County, Oregon with an estimated 1,198 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 153rd largest of 165 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,198
#153 of 165 in Oregon
Change since 2020
+1.3%
+15 people
Land area
0.6 sq mi
Density
1,902 / sq mi
State median 3,097
Orange pin: Drain. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Salem.

Drain population, 2020 to 2024

Drain added 15 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

1,18320201,19520211,19620221,20020231,1982024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,182. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Drain covers 0.63 square miles of land, for 1,902 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Drain is less dense than the typical town.

What county Drain is in

All of Drain's residents live in Douglas County, which had 112,255 residents in 2024. Drain holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Drain

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Drain by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97435. 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 Drain is

The Census internal point of Drain is at 43.662300, -123.314300. Salem, the capital, is 89.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cottage Grove, OR (10,690 people), 15.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Eugene, OR, 29.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
43.662300, -123.314300
DMS
43°39'44.28"N 123°18'51.48"W
UTM
10N 474658.8E 4834414.3N
Geohash
9rb23umr2
Plus code
84MRMM6P+W7

Daylight in Drain

At 43.66° N, Drain gets about 15 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Drain

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Yoncalla, 4.4 miles away, with 1,033 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Drain, OR?

1,198 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 15 (1.3%) from 1,183 in July 2020.

What county is Drain in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Drain?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 97435.

How far is Drain from Salem?

89.3 miles (143.8 km) in a straight line, heading N from Drain.

What is the nearest larger city to Drain?

Cottage Grove, OR, with 10,690 residents, 15.8 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.