Oregon cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Oregon, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Portland city".

The largest place in Oregon is Portland city with 642,715 residents, and the 426 places on this page hold 3,460,609 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $2,499 to $250,001, and median home values range from $9,999 to $2,000,001 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Most of what is listed for Oregon is small. 46% of the 426 places here hold fewer than a thousand residents, while 13 carry 50,000 or more and account between them for 52% of the state's 3,460,609 counted people. The ranking below is really two lists stacked together: a short one of cities and a very long one of villages. The median row holds just 1,200 residents. At that scale margins of error widen sharply, and a single large household or seasonal population can shift a median.

Oregon sits on the expensive side of the national picture without being an outlier: $345,050 median home value on $70,815 of income is 4.9 years of gross earnings against 3.9 nationally. Median gross rent runs $1,175 including utilities, or about 20% of median household income annually.

The internal range is wide but not exceptional: $108,618 at the ninetieth percentile against $45,278 at the tenth, a 2.4× gap. At the edges, Dunthorpe CDP tops the list at $250,001 and Fort Klamath CDP anchors the bottom at $2,499.

About one row in 8 is incomplete — 53 of 426 places have a suppressed estimate, almost all of them at the small end. Five-year estimates average responses over sixty months, so what is published is a stable baseline rather than a reading of this month's market.

How many places does Oregon have? 426 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. 46% of them have fewer than a thousand residents, so the list is far longer than the number of towns you would recognise by name.

Which Oregon row should I compare mine against? Pick places within roughly the same population band. In a state this spread out, size drives the housing and income figures more than region does.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.