Sandy, Oregon

Sandy population, 2020 to 2024

Sandy added 329 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +26. Among 80 Oregon places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 29th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oregon has 14,915 people, so Sandy is 87% of it.

Sandy covers 3.69 square miles of land, for 3,520 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Sandy is denser than the typical town.

What county Sandy is in

All of Sandy's residents live in Clackamas County, which had 425,857 residents in 2024. Sandy holds 3.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sandy

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sandy by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97055. 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 Sandy is

The Census internal point of Sandy is at 45.398100, -122.268800. Salem, the capital, is 48.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gresham, OR (111,507 people), 11.1 miles away.

Daylight in Sandy

At 45.40° N, Sandy gets about 15 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sandy

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Estacada, 7.6 miles away, with 5,591 people.