Oregon · Census place 4144300

Lyons, Oregon

Lyons is a city in Linn County, Oregon with an estimated 1,220 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 149th largest of 165 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,220
#149 of 165 in Oregon
Change since 2020
+1.1%
+13 people
Land area
0.9 sq mi
Density
1,402 / sq mi
State median 3,097
Orange pin: Lyons. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Salem.

Lyons population, 2020 to 2024

Lyons added 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +12.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,207. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Lyons covers 0.87 square miles of land, for 1,402 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Lyons is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lyons is in

All of Lyons's residents live in Linn County, which had 132,474 residents in 2024. Lyons holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lyons

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lyons by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97358. 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 Lyons is

The Census internal point of Lyons is at 44.779300, -122.611800. Salem, the capital, is 23.3 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mill City, OR (2,128 people), 6.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salem, OR, 22.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
44.779300, -122.611800
DMS
44°46'45.48"N 122°36'42.48"W
UTM
10N 530713.3E 4958507.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
84PVQ9HQ+P7

Daylight in Lyons

At 44.78° N, Lyons gets about 15 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lyons

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Mill City, 6.9 miles away, with 2,128 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Lyons, OR?

1,220 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 13 (1.1%) from 1,207 in July 2020.

What county is Lyons in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Lyons?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 97358.

How far is Lyons from Salem?

23.3 miles (37.4 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Lyons.

What is the nearest larger city to Lyons?

Mill City, OR, with 2,128 residents, 6.9 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.