What is the population of Vale city?

Vale city has 2,259 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #152 of 426 in Oregon.

What is the median household income in Vale city?

Median household income in Vale city is $48,854 a year, 37.8% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $844 a month and the median home value is $162,500, so rent absorbs about 20.7% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 3.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Vale city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 20.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Vale, OR population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Vale, Oregon (Vale, OR — Census place “Vale city”) is 2,259 residents, ranking #152 of 426 places in Oregon. Median household income is $48,854, the median home is worth $162,500 and median gross rent runs $844 a month. Looking for the Vale Oregon ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Vale, OR: 97918.

Population: 2,259Vale city residents
Median household income: $48,854Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $162,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $844Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 32.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 58%Owner-occupied households

Vale ZIP codes (Oregon)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Vale.

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

97918

What the numbers mean in Vale city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Vale city median would spend about 20.7% 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 3.3× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 18.9% of residents and 58% of households own their home.

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

Vale city, OR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Vale city is a small town in Oregon, with 2,259 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #152 of 426 ranked by population — larger than 64% of them. The median age here is 32.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Vale city earn a median of $48,854 a year, 37.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 34% 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 18.9% 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 Vale city is valued at $162,500, 46.4% below the national figure and 57% below the $377,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $844 a month, 40% below the national figure, or roughly $10,128 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.7% 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 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 58% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Vale city?: Vale city has 2,259 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #152 of 426 in Oregon.
What is the median household income in Vale city?: Median household income in Vale city is $48,854 a year, 37.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Vale city?: Median gross rent is $844 a month and the median home value is $162,500, so rent absorbs about 20.7% of median household income.
Is Vale city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.3× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Vale city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 20.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Vale city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.