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SheetOR-ESTACADA-OR · Estacada, OR 4,878 pop · income 65th 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 Estacada
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Estacada on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Zapata · lowest
37,653
Zapata · lowest
37,653 median HH income
28.8% of the leader · rank #1
Estacada · this city
82,909
Estacada · this city
82,909 median HH income
63.5% of the leader · rank #2
Danville · near
82,917
Danville · near
82,917 median HH income
63.5% of the leader · rank #3
Lakeview Heig… · near
82,917
Lakeview Heig… · near
82,917 median HH income
63.5% of the leader · rank #4
Williamstown · near
82,917
Williamstown · near
82,917 median HH income
63.5% of the leader · rank #5
Adams · near
82,917
Adams · near
82,917 median HH income
63.5% of the leader · rank #6
Beavercreek · highest
130,588
Beavercreek · highest
130,588 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Estacada on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 4,878.
Estacada ranks in the 65th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
65th
percentile, household income
82nd
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Estacada, OR
4,878 people live in Estacada, Oregon - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $82,909 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 19.3%. Home values in Estacada run a median of $459,800, and the median resident age is 37.8 years. About 13.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 57.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 107 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 42% from five years earlier. NOAA puts Estacada's yearly average temperature at 54.0°F with 57.8 inches of precipitation per year and 1.1 inches of snowfall.
Oregon carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,425 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $185 across Oregon, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Estacada'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 population change to climate and hazard context to schools and households to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Estacada, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Population change
Is Estacada growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,283 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +28.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 107 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 54.0°F, with 57.8 inches of precipitation and 1.1 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.
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.
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 13.5% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Estacada?
Within Oregon, the closest population matches are Crooked River Ranch (4,681 residents, $75,260 income); King City (5,078 residents, $66,728 income); Mount Hood Villages (5,139 residents, $89,717 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are New Castle, CO (4,878 residents); Carmi, IL (4,879 residents); Farmington, ME (4,879 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.
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 Estacada?
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 68.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.6%
Work from home
12.6%
Drive alone
68.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,177 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Estacada?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 19.3%, 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
$82,909
Home value
$459,800
Value / income
5.5×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 19.3% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Oregon average
F
City profile score · Estacada, OR
32/100
4 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 C+
$82,909
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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.
Bachelor's+ share F
13.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
19.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Estacada profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 62/100 (C+) · $82,909
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Bachelor's+ share: 16/100 (F) · 13.5%
Poverty rate: 15/100 (F) · 19.3%
How does Estacada compare to other US cities?
Where Estacada sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income65% higher than other cities
Home value82% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Estacada 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 Estacada near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Estacada ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Estacada only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#123 of 364
66th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#89 of 366
76th percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#30 of 395
92nd percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#285 of 395
28th 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
65th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Estacada's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$459,80018th percentilemore affordable than 18% 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
Estacada's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,637 of 15,516
More affordable than 12% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,192 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.5×, Estacada sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,637 of 15,516 and #10,192 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$82,909Estacada, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Estacada, 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 Estacada, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)13.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)19.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,878
Median Income
$82,909
Median Home Value
$459,800
Median Age
37.8
Poverty Rate
19.3%
Labor force participation
57.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
13.5%
Climate
Avg Temperature
54.0°F
Annual Precipitation
57.8"
Annual Snowfall
1.1"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Estacada's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,531 residents
2021
4,808 residents
2022
5,318 residents
2023
5,444 residents
2024
5,568 residents
2025
5,814 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
107
housing units authorized
Single-Family
107
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
21.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
183
183
0
$34.2M
2020
125
125
0
$30.3M
2021
229
229
0
$54.5M
2022
75
75
0
$22.3M
2023
59
59
0
$23.6M
2024
107
107
0
$42.2M
Permit volume decreased 42% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.1%
Carpool
11.8%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
6.3%
Work from Home
12.6%
Other
0.6%
Based on 2,177 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 Estacada. 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 Estacada 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 Estacada sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Estacada 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, 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.