Philomath, Oregon

Philomath population, 2020 to 2024

Philomath added 453 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.5%. In the latest year it moved by +24. Among 80 Oregon places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oregon has 14,915 people, so Philomath is 39% of it.

Philomath covers 2.06 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 2,813 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Philomath is close to the typical town.

What county Philomath is in

All of Philomath's residents live in Benton County, which had 98,899 residents in 2024. Philomath holds 5.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Philomath

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Philomath by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97370. 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 Philomath is

The Census internal point of Philomath is at 44.542000, -123.359500. Salem, the capital, is 31.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Corvallis, OR (61,993 people), 4.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salem, OR, 31.1 miles away.

Daylight in Philomath

At 44.54° N, Philomath gets about 15 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Philomath

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Corvallis, 4.4 miles away, with 61,993 people.