St. Helens, Oregon

St. Helens population, 2020 to 2024

St. Helens added 555 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +18. Among 80 Oregon places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oregon has 14,915 people, so St. Helens is 97% of it.

St. Helens covers 4.86 square miles of land and 1.05 of water, for 2,975 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so St. Helens is close to the typical town.

What county St. Helens is in

All of St. Helens's residents live in Columbia County, which had 54,063 residents in 2024. St. Helens holds 26.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in St. Helens

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps St. Helens by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97051. 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 St. Helens is

The Census internal point of St. Helens is at 45.856300, -122.817200. Salem, the capital, is 64.2 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ridgefield, WA (15,359 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Vancouver, WA, 18.5 miles away.

Daylight in St. Helens

At 45.86° N, St. Helens gets about 15 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near St. Helens

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Columbia City, 3.0 miles away, with 1,949 people.