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SheetOR-FOUR-CORNERS-OR · Four Corners, OR 16,168 pop · income 48th 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 Four Corners
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Four Corners on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Center Point · lowest
52,401
Center Point · lowest
52,401 median HH income
40.5% of the leader · rank #1
Counce · near
69,224
Counce · near
69,224 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #2
Cedar Key · near
69,226
Cedar Key · near
69,226 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #3
Dalton City · near
69,231
Dalton City · near
69,231 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #4
Four Corners · this city
69,232
Four Corners · this city
69,232 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #5
Luck · near
69,239
Luck · near
69,239 median HH income
53.5% of the leader · rank #6
Grosse Pointe… · highest
129,442
Grosse Pointe… · highest
129,442 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 Four Corners 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: 16,168.
Four Corners ranks in the 48th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
48th
percentile, household income
67th
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: Four Corners, OR
Four Corners is a small town in Oregon, home to 16,168 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Four Corners brings in $69,232 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.5%. Home values in Four Corners run a median of $313,500, and the median resident age is 36.9 years. 11.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Workers in Four Corners report an average commute of 22.0 minutes, with 70.7% driving alone and 7.5% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 63.4 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Four Corners'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Four Corners, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Four Corners?
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 4.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Four Corners?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.0 minutes.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Four Corners?
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.
Within Oregon, the closest population matches are Troutdale (16,000 residents, $84,339 income); The Dalles (15,973 residents, $62,830 income); Coos Bay (15,867 residents, $55,292 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Grosse Pointe Woods, MI (16,177 residents); Sulphur Springs, TX (16,185 residents); Lithia Springs, GA (16,138 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.
Below median income · poverty 7.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Oregon average
F
City profile score · Four Corners, OR
36/100
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.
Poverty rate C-
7.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$69,232
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
11.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Four Corners profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 50/100 (C-) · 7.5%
Household income: 48/100 (D) · $69,232
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Bachelor's+ share: 11/100 (F) · 11.7%
How does Four Corners compare to other US cities?
Here's how Four Corners stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income48% higher than other cities
Home value67% 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 Four Corners 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 Four Corners near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Four Corners ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Four Corners only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#199 of 364
45th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#216 of 366
41st percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#166 of 395
57th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#313 of 395
20th 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
48th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Four Corners's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$313,50033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% 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
Four Corners's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,037 of 15,516
More affordable than 22% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,362 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.5×, Four Corners sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,037 of 15,516 and #2,362 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
$69,232Four Corners, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Four Corners, 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 Four Corners, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)11.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,168
Median Income
$69,232
Median Home Value
$313,500
Median Age
36.9
Poverty Rate
7.5%
Labor force participation
62.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
11.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.0 minutes
Drive Alone
70.7%
Carpool
16.4%
Public Transit
2.0%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
7.5%
Other
2.2%
Based on 7,851 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 Four Corners. 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 Four Corners 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 Four Corners sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Four Corners 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, 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.