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SheetOR-CENTRAL-POINT-OR · Central Point, OR 19,183 pop · income 62nd 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 Central Point
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Central Point on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Alton · lowest
48,777
Alton · lowest
48,777 median HH income
21.4% of the leader · rank #1
Warrenton · near
80,441
Warrenton · near
80,441 median HH income
35.3% of the leader · rank #2
Central Point · this city
80,450
Central Point · this city
80,450 median HH income
35.3% of the leader · rank #3
Lakehurst · near
80,458
Lakehurst · near
80,458 median HH income
35.3% of the leader · rank #4
Cañada de los… · near
80,460
Cañada de los… · near
80,460 median HH income
35.3% of the leader · rank #5
Bendersville · near
80,461
Bendersville · near
80,461 median HH income
35.3% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Forest · highest
228,120
Lake Forest · highest
228,120 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 Central Point 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: 19,183.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Central Point - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Central Point lands in the 62nd percentile for household income and the 58th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
62nd
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
58th
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: Central Point, OR
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 19,183 residents in Central Point, a small town within Oregon. The typical household in Central Point brings in $80,450 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.6%. Typical homes in Central Point are valued around $357,700, and the median resident age is 39.3 years. About 23.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 54 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 64% from five years earlier. Central Point reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1145.9 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,425 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Oregon run around $185, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Central Point workers runs 15.1 minutes, with 76.0% driving alone and 8.2% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 63.4 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Central Point'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime to schools and households to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Central Point, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
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.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Central Point?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.6%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Central Point?
Within Oregon, the closest population matches are Lebanon (18,978 residents, $56,740 income); Hermiston (19,406 residents, $67,128 income); Cedar Mill (19,482 residents, $167,037 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Deerfield, IL (19,185 residents); Melville, NY (19,187 residents); Orange, TX (19,178 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Central Point?
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 1145.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 50% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the education layer cover for Central Point?
The NCES join finds 10 public schools within the city match. 23.0% 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Central Point?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.1 minutes.
Public transit
0.8%
Work from home
8.2%
Drive alone
76.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 9,601 workers age 16+.
Is Central Point 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 +52 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 54 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+0.3%
2025 estimate
19,139
2020 estimate
19,087
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 5.6% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Oregon average
D
City profile score · Central Point, OR
49/100
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.
Poverty rate C+
5.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income C+
$80,450
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C-
172 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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.
Central Point profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 62/100 (C+) · 5.6%
Household income: 60/100 (C+) · $80,450
Violent crime: 53/100 (C-) · 172 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 43/100 (D) · 23.0%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Central Point sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Central Point'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 - Central Point highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Central Point, OR (this city): home $357,700, crime 1,146/100k
Deerfield, IL : home $608,600, crime 1,038/100k
Orange, TX : home $147,200, crime 1,643/100k
Lake Forest, IL : home $909,800, crime 646/100k
Alton, TX : home $126,600, crime 1,924/100k
Lebanon, OR : home $295,900, crime 1,196/100k
Hermiston, OR : home $244,700, crime 3,543/100k
Sherwood, OR : home $564,200, crime 1,651/100k
Canby, OR : home $479,500, crime 1,114/100k
How does Central Point compare to other US cities?
Here's how Central Point stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income62% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
Safety58% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Oregon, Central Point ranks #17 of 85 Oregon cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Central Point 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 Central Point near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Central Point ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Central Point only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#138 of 364
62nd percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#176 of 366
52nd percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#217 of 395
44th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#190 of 395
51st 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
62nd percentile nationally for median household income · 58th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Central Point's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Central Point'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 Central Point's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$357,70027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
Central Point's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,865 of 15,516
More affordable than 24% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,310 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.4×, Central Point sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,865 of 15,516 and #2,310 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$80,450Central Point, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Central Point, 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 Central Point, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,183
Median Income
$80,450
Median Home Value
$357,700
Median Age
39.3
Poverty Rate
5.6%
Labor force participation
63.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1145.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
171.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
974.0
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.
Schools
Total Schools
10
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Central Point's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
19,087 residents
2021
19,432 residents
2022
19,229 residents
2023
19,202 residents
2024
19,123 residents
2025
19,139 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
54
housing units authorized
Single-Family
41
detached homes
Multifamily
13
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
151
27
124
$20.4M
2020
120
49
71
$20.3M
2021
113
60
53
$21.8M
2022
98
16
82
$15.3M
2023
79
12
67
$16.0M
2024
54
41
13
$12.0M
Permit volume decreased 64% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.1 minutes
Drive Alone
76.0%
Carpool
10.3%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
8.2%
Other
4.0%
Based on 9,601 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 Central Point. 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 Central Point 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 Central Point sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Central Point 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, 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.