Happy Valley, OR population, income and ZIP codes

Happy Valley city is a small city in Oregon, with 25,572 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #27 of 426 ranked by population — larger than 93% of them. The median age here is 39.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Happy Valley city earn a median of $120,324 a year, 53.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 63% above the $74,006 median for the 228 Oregon cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 6.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Happy Valley city is valued at $671,800, 121.4% above the national figure and 78% above the $377,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,025 a month, 44% above the national figure, or roughly $24,300 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 82% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.