Portland, Oregon

Portland population, 2020 to 2024

Portland lost 17,417 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1,435. Among 80 Oregon places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 75th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oregon has 14,915 people, so Portland is 42.6 times that size.

Portland covers 133.49 square miles of land and 11.51 of water, for 4,763 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Portland is denser than the typical town.

The 3 counties Portland spans

Portland crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 635,749 residents as follows; Multnomah County holds 99.6% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Portland

29 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Portland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97201, 97202, 97203, 97204, 97205, 97206, 97208, 97209, 97210, 97211, 97212, 97213, 97214, 97215, 97216, 97217, 97218, 97219, 97220, 97221, 97227, 97229, 97230, 97232, 97233, 97236, 97239, 97258, 97266. 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 Portland is

The Census internal point of Portland is at 45.537000, -122.650000. Salem, the capital, is 45.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Seattle, WA (780,995 people), 144.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Vancouver, WA, 7.4 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 50 m (164 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Portland

At 45.54° N, Portland gets about 15 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Portland daylight page.

Places near Portland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Milwaukie, 6.5 miles away, with 21,620 people.