Oregon · Census place 4130550

Grants Pass, Oregon

Grants Pass is a city in Josephine County, Oregon with an estimated 39,468 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 14th largest of 165 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
39,468
#14 of 165 in Oregon
Change since 2020
+0.6%
+224 people
Land area
11.5 sq mi
+ 0.16 sq mi water
Density
3,426 / sq mi
State median 3,097
Orange pin: Grants Pass. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Salem.

Grants Pass population, 2020 to 2024

Grants Pass added 224 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +143. Among 80 Oregon places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oregon has 14,915 people, so Grants Pass is 2.6 times that size.

39.2k202039.4k202139.1k202239.3k202339.5k2024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 39,191. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Grants Pass covers 11.52 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 3,426 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Grants Pass is denser than the typical town.

What county Grants Pass is in

All of Grants Pass's residents live in Josephine County, which had 88,276 residents in 2024. Grants Pass holds 44.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grants Pass

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Grants Pass by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97526, 97527. 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 Grants Pass is

The Census internal point of Grants Pass is at 42.432300, -123.331800. Salem, the capital, is 173.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Medford, OR (86,301 people), 25.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Eugene, OR, 112.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
42.432300, -123.331800
DMS
42°25'56.28"N 123°19'54.48"W
UTM
10N 472707.9E 4697829.1N
Geohash
9r833s8d0
Plus code
84JRCMJ9+W7

Daylight in Grants Pass

At 42.43° N, Grants Pass gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Grants Pass

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Rogue River, 8.3 miles away, with 2,337 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Grants Pass, OR?

39,468 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 224 (0.6%) from 39,244 in July 2020.

What county is Grants Pass in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Grants Pass?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 97526, 97527.

How far is Grants Pass from Salem?

173.9 miles (279.8 km) in a straight line, heading N from Grants Pass.

What is the nearest larger city to Grants Pass?

Medford, OR, with 86,301 residents, 25.4 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.