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Albany, OR Metro Area

The Albany, OR metro area is one county in Oregon: Linn County. About 132,843 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 3.3% more than in April 2020.

Linn County, centralAlbany
Linn County in Oregon
Population, July 2025
132,843 3.3% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
County
Linn County
Land area
2,290 sq mi (5,930 km²)
Time zone
Pacific TimeUTC-08:00 in January; UTC-07:00 in July
State
Oregon
Combined statistical area
Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA
CBSA code
10540
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The county in the Albany, OR metro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Linn CountyCentral132,843

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Albany56,839 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Portland-Vancouver-Salem, OR-WA combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 4 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area2,542,282 people
  2. Salem, OR Metro Area445,814 people
  3. Longview-Kelso, WA Metro Area114,885 people
  4. Corvallis, OR Metro Area97,728 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Corvallis, OR Metro Area9.8 mi southwest
  2. Salem, OR Metro Area21 mi north
  3. Eugene-Springfield, OR Metro Area39 mi south
  4. Bend, OR Metro Area97 mi southeast

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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