River Road, OR population, income and ZIP codes

River Road CDP is a mid-size town in Oregon, with 8,462 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #77 of 426 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 39.6 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 River Road CDP earn a median of $78,479 a year, essentially level with the national figure of $78,538 and 6% above 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 14.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in River Road CDP is valued at $360,400, 18.8% above the national figure and 5% below the $377,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,398 a month, essentially level with the national figure, or roughly $16,776 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.4% 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 4.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 69.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

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.