Seneca, OR population, income and ZIP codes

Seneca city is a very small community in Oregon, with 119 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #392 of 426 ranked by population — larger than 8% of them. The median age here is 58.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Seneca city earn a median of $76,250 a year, 2.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 3% 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 10.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Seneca city is valued at $157,100, 48.2% below the national figure and 58% below the $377,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 73.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 58.8 puts Seneca city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 119 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Seneca city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Seneca city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.