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SheetOR-BEAVERTON-OR · Beaverton, OR 97,502 pop · income 74th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Beaverton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Beaverton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Portsmouth · lowest
58,972
Portsmouth · lowest
58,972 median HH income
57.1% of the leader · rank #1
Antioch · near
94,256
Antioch · near
94,256 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #2
Beaverton · this city
94,279
Beaverton · this city
94,279 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #3
Charlton Heig… · near
94,286
Charlton Heig… · near
94,286 median HH income
91.4% of the leader · rank #4
Carbondale · near
94,300
Carbondale · near
94,300 median HH income
91.4% of the leader · rank #5
Watsessing · near
94,301
Watsessing · near
94,301 median HH income
91.4% of the leader · rank #6
Hillsboro · highest
103,207
Hillsboro · highest
103,207 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Beaverton on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 97,502.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Beaverton - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Beaverton places in the 74th percentile for household income and the 15th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
74th
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
15th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Beaverton, OR
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 97,502 residents in Beaverton, a small city within Oregon. Households in Beaverton report a median income of $94,279 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.2%. Typical homes in Beaverton are valued around $543,100, and the median resident age is 37.6 years. About 49.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 67.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 161 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 59% from five years earlier. Beaverton's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 3026.0 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 53.7°F.
Oregon carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Oregon at 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Above Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,425 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $185 across Oregon, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 18.8 minutes, with 61.2% driving alone and 21.9% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 63.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Beaverton's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to population change to reported crime to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Beaverton, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Beaverton?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 61.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.8 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Beaverton?
Within Oregon, the closest population matches are Bend (101,472 residents, $88,792 income); Hillsboro (107,050 residents, $103,207 income); Medford (85,794 residents, $70,497 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Portsmouth, VA (97,299 residents); Fayetteville, AR (97,227 residents); Orem, UT (97,048 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 53.7°F. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Oregon is 63.4 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Is Beaverton growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +248 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 161 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Beaverton?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3026.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 33% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2661.2
Violent rate
364.8
Total reported rate
3026.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Beaverton?
The NCES join finds 35 public schools within the city match. 49.2% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Matched public schools
35
Bachelor's degree+
49.2%
Poverty estimate
6.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Beaverton?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Household income
$94,279
Home value
$543,100
Value / income
5.8×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 6.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Oregon average
C-
City profile score · Beaverton, OR
52/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share A-
49.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B
$94,279
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
103.4 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime F
365 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Beaverton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 83/100 (A-) · 49.2%
Household income: 73/100 (B) · $94,279
Poverty rate: 58/100 (C) · 6.2%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Violent crime: 24/100 (F) · 365 /100k
Where Beaverton sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Beaverton's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Beaverton highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Beaverton, OR (this city): home $543,100, crime 3,026/100k
Portsmouth, VA : home $229,400, crime 4,613/100k
Fayetteville, AR : home $322,500, crime 2,795/100k
Orem, UT : home $439,000, crime 1,534/100k
Conroe, TX : home $283,100, crime 1,877/100k
Yakima, WA : home $273,400, crime 2,589/100k
Suffolk, VA : home $329,600, crime 1,942/100k
Bend, OR : home $646,800, crime 1,531/100k
Hillsboro, OR : home $483,400, crime 2,747/100k
Medford, OR : home $387,000, crime 4,324/100k
Gresham, OR : home $440,000, crime 2,837/100k
Springfield, OR : home $323,800, crime 3,097/100k
Corvallis, OR : home $480,600, crime 2,695/100k
How does Beaverton compare to other US cities?
Beaverton measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
Safety15% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Oregon and the picture shifts: Beaverton ranks #68 of 85 Oregon cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Beaverton against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Oregon only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Oregon-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Beaverton near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Beaverton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Beaverton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#72 of 364
80th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#57 of 366
84th percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#200 of 395
49th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#43 of 395
89th percentile in Oregon
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Oregon only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
74th percentile nationally for median household income · 15th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Beaverton's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Beaverton's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Beaverton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$543,10013th percentilemore affordable than 13% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Beaverton's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,878 of 15,516
More affordable than 11% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#550 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.8×, Beaverton sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,878 of 15,516 and #550 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$94,279Beaverton, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Beaverton, OR median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Beaverton, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)49.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
97,502
Median Income
$94,279
Median Home Value
$543,100
Median Age
37.6
Poverty Rate
6.2%
Labor force participation
67.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
49.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3026.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
364.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2661.2
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
53.7°F
Annual Precipitation
N/A
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
35
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Beaverton's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
97,594 residents
2021
98,584 residents
2022
97,054 residents
2023
97,525 residents
2024
97,917 residents
2025
97,842 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
161
housing units authorized
Single-Family
161
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
392
176
216
$78.7M
2020
890
130
760
$145.6M
2021
110
110
0
$32.2M
2022
601
114
487
$122.1M
2023
330
301
29
$94.3M
2024
161
161
0
$49.9M
Permit volume decreased 59% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.8 minutes
Drive Alone
61.2%
Carpool
6.5%
Public Transit
5.3%
Walk
2.9%
Work from Home
21.9%
Other
2.2%
Based on 53,458 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Oregon statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $185
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Oregon at $185 (electricity about $85 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Oregon statewide averages, not a meter reading for Beaverton. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Oregon's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Beaverton is $1,425/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Oregon statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 63.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Oregon statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Beaverton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Beaverton compares to similar-size Oregon cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.