What is the population of Ontario city?

Ontario city has 11,728 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #53 of 426 in Oregon.

What is the median household income in Ontario city?

Median household income in Ontario city is $43,887 a year, 44.1% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ontario city?

Median gross rent is $790 a month and the median home value is $217,500, so rent absorbs about 21.6% of median household income.

Is Ontario city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ontario city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 21.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Ontario, OR population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Ontario, Oregon (Ontario, OR — Census place “Ontario city”) is 11,728 residents, ranking #53 of 426 places in Oregon. Median household income is $43,887, the median home is worth $217,500 and median gross rent runs $790 a month. Looking for the Ontario Oregon ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Ontario, OR: 97914.

Population: 11,728Ontario city residents
Median household income: $43,887Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $217,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $790Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 35.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 59.4%Owner-occupied households

Ontario ZIP codes (Oregon)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Ontario.

The Ontario OR ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

97914

What the numbers mean in Ontario city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Ontario city median would spend about 21.6% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 5.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 19.2% of residents and 59.4% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Ontario city, OR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Ontario city is a mid-size town in Oregon, with 11,728 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #53 of 426 ranked by population — larger than 87% of them. The median age here is 35.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Ontario city earn a median of $43,887 a year, 44.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 41% below the $74,006 median for the 228 Oregon cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 19.2% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Ontario city is valued at $217,500, 28.3% below the national figure and 42% below the $377,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $790 a month, 43.8% below the national figure, or roughly $9,480 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.6% 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×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 59.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Ontario city?: Ontario city has 11,728 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #53 of 426 in Oregon.
What is the median household income in Ontario city?: Median household income in Ontario city is $43,887 a year, 44.1% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Ontario city?: Median gross rent is $790 a month and the median home value is $217,500, so rent absorbs about 21.6% of median household income.
Is Ontario city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Ontario city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 21.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Ontario city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.