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Place dossier plate
SheetOR-COTTAGE-GROVE-OR · Cottage Grove, OR 10,630 pop · income 42nd 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 Cottage Grove
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cottage Grove on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mount Airy · lowest
39,873
Mount Airy · lowest
39,873 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #1
College · near
64,130
College · near
64,130 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #2
Cottage Grove · this city
64,133
Cottage Grove · this city
64,133 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #3
Byron · near
64,135
Byron · near
64,135 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #4
Jacksonville · near
64,135
Jacksonville · near
64,135 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #5
Hanover · near
64,135
Hanover · near
64,135 median HH income
38.1% of the leader · rank #6
Fair Oaks Ran… · highest
168,309
Fair Oaks Ran… · highest
168,309 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 Cottage Grove 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: 10,630.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Cottage Grove - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Cottage Grove places in the 42nd percentile for household income and the 27th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
42nd
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
27th
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: Cottage Grove, OR
Oregon's Cottage Grove is a small town, with 10,630 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Cottage Grove report a median income of $64,133 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.6%. Cottage Grove's housing stock carries a median value of $318,800, and the median resident age is 39.3 years. Educational attainment runs 20.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 60.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 129 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 193% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2230.2 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 52.3°F with 46.5 inches of precipitation per year and 2.7 inches of snowfall.
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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Oregon's average monthly utility costs around $185 (state average). 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 Cottage Grove'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change to climate and hazard context to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cottage Grove, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
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
What does the journey to work look like in Cottage Grove?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Cottage Grove?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2230.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 2% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Cottage Grove?
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.
Within Oregon, the closest population matches are Fairview (10,627 residents, $71,024 income); Santa Clara (10,623 residents, $82,530 income); Silverton (10,445 residents, $74,286 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fair Oaks Ranch, TX (10,630 residents); Mount Airy, NC (10,631 residents); Munhall, PA (10,633 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Cottage Grove?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Population change
Is Cottage Grove growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +202 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 129 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
2020 estimate
10,649
2025 estimate
10,851
Period change
+1.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What physical conditions frame life in Cottage Grove?
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 52.3°F, with 46.5 inches of precipitation and 2.7 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
63.4
Annual precipitation
46.5 in
Mean temperature
52.3°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the education layer cover for Cottage Grove?
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.
The NCES join finds 8 public schools within the city match. 20.7% 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.
Poverty estimate
11.6%
Bachelor's degree+
20.7%
Matched public schools
8
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 11.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Oregon average
F
City profile score · Cottage Grove, OR
35/100
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.
Household income D
$64,133
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
273 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
20.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.6%
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.
Cottage Grove profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 41/100 (D) · $64,133
Violent crime: 37/100 (F) · 273 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 36/100 (F) · 20.7%
Poverty rate: 33/100 (F) · 11.6%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Cottage Grove sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Cottage Grove'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 - Cottage Grove highlighted among 25 peers.Read the chart values
Cottage Grove, OR (this city): home $318,800, crime 2,230/100k
Fair Oaks Ranch, TX : home $612,700, crime 619/100k
Mount Airy, NC : home $176,600, crime 2,748/100k
Munhall, PA : home $118,900, crime 1,492/100k
Newport, OR : home $404,800, crime 2,919/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Cottage Grove compare to other US cities?
Here's how Cottage Grove stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income42% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
Safety27% 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, Cottage Grove ranks #49 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 Cottage Grove 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 Cottage Grove near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cottage Grove ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cottage Grove only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#223 of 364
39th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#206 of 366
43rd percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#91 of 395
77th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#216 of 395
45th 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
42nd percentile nationally for median household income · 27th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Cottage Grove's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Cottage Grove'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 Cottage Grove's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$318,80032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
Cottage Grove's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,837 of 15,516
More affordable than 17% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,591 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.0×, Cottage Grove sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,837 of 15,516 and #2,591 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
$64,133Cottage Grove, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cottage Grove, 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 Cottage Grove, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,630
Median Income
$64,133
Median Home Value
$318,800
Median Age
39.3
Poverty Rate
11.6%
Labor force participation
60.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2230.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
272.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1957.3
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
52.3°F
Annual Precipitation
46.5"
Annual Snowfall
2.7"
Schools
Total Schools
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Cottage Grove's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,649 residents
2021
10,680 residents
2022
10,777 residents
2023
10,705 residents
2024
10,678 residents
2025
10,851 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
129
housing units authorized
Single-Family
9
detached homes
Multifamily
120
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
12.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
44
44
0
$6.1M
2020
26
19
7
$5.7M
2021
121
27
94
$20.0M
2022
19
7
12
$3.1M
2023
19
7
12
$4.5M
2024
129
9
120
$20.3M
Permit volume increased 193% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.7%
Carpool
9.7%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
6.7%
Work from Home
8.3%
Based on 5,122 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 Cottage Grove. 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 Cottage Grove 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 Cottage Grove sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cottage Grove 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.