Oregon · Census place 4172600
Tangent, Oregon
Tangent is a city in Linn County, Oregon with an estimated 1,253 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 148th largest of 165 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,253
- #148 of 165 in Oregon
- Change since 2020
- +0.2%
- +2 people
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Density
- 331 / sq mi
- State median 3,097
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Tangent population, 2020 to 2024
Tangent added 2 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +6.
Tangent covers 3.78 square miles of land, for 331 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Tangent is less dense than the typical town.
What county Tangent is in
All of Tangent's residents live in Linn County, which had 132,474 residents in 2024. Tangent 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 Tangent
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Tangent by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97389. 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 Tangent is
The Census internal point of Tangent is at 44.547600, -123.110800. Salem, the capital, is 27.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Albany, OR (57,156 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Salem, OR, 26.3 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 44.547600, -123.110800
- DMS
- 44°32'51.36"N 123°06'38.88"W
- UTM
- 10N 491198.8E 4932702.5N
- Geohash
- 9rbmqt9kw
- Plus code
- 84PRGVXQ+2M
Daylight in Tangent
At 44.55° N, Tangent 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 Tangent
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Albany, 5.5 miles away, with 57,156 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Tangent, OR?
1,253 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 2 (0.2%) from 1,251 in July 2020.
What county is Tangent in?
Linn County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Tangent?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 97389.
How far is Tangent from Salem?
27.3 miles (44.0 km) in a straight line, heading N from Tangent.
What is the nearest larger city to Tangent?
Albany, OR, with 57,156 residents, 5.5 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.