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Place dossier plate
SheetOR-GRANTS-PASS-OR · Grants Pass, OR 39,183 pop · income 30th pct · 22 tracts
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 Grants Pass
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Grants Pass on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Quincy · lowest
56,372
Quincy · lowest
56,372 median HH income
34.3% of the leader · rank #1
Big Lagoon · near
56,875
Big Lagoon · near
56,875 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #2
Yankeetown · near
56,875
Yankeetown · near
56,875 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #3
Parker City · near
56,875
Parker City · near
56,875 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #4
Williamsport · near
56,875
Williamsport · near
56,875 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #5
Grants Pass · this city
56,877
Grants Pass · this city
56,877 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #6
Bethany · highest
164,315
Bethany · highest
164,315 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 Grants Pass 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: 39,183.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Grants Pass - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Grants Pass lands in the 30th percentile for household income and the 13th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
30th
percentile, household income
74th
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
13th
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: Grants Pass, OR
39,183 people live in Grants Pass, Oregon - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Grants Pass report a median income of $56,877 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.3%. Typical homes in Grants Pass are valued around $364,200, and the median resident age is 40.8 years. 19.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 52.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 94 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 18% from five years earlier. Grants Pass's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3308.4 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 55.6°F with 31.3 inches of precipitation per year and 0.9 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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Oregon run around $185, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 16.0 minutes, with 74.0% driving alone and 9.1% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Grants Pass'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 within-city variation to climate and hazard context to schools and households to work and mobility to reported crime 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 Grants Pass, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Is Grants Pass growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +29 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 94 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
What can 22 Census tracts reveal inside Grants Pass?
PlainCities matches 22 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
What physical conditions frame life in Grants Pass?
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 55.6°F, with 31.3 inches of precipitation and 0.9 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Grants Pass?
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 Keizer (39,013 residents, $81,217 income); Lake Oswego (40,367 residents, $140,441 income); Oregon City (37,482 residents, $94,648 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Quincy, IL (39,188 residents); Greer, SC (39,191 residents); Parkland, WA (39,174 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Grants Pass?
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 21 public schools within the city match. 19.7% 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
11.3%
Bachelor's degree+
19.7%
Matched public schools
21
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Grants Pass?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 16.0 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.
Drive alone
74.0%
Work from home
9.1%
Public transit
0.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 16,308 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Grants Pass?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3308.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 45% higher 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.
Total reported rate
3308.4
Violent rate
404.0
Property rate
2904.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Grants Pass?
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 6.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 11.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
6.4×
Home value
$364,200
Household income
$56,877
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 11.3% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Oregon average
F
City profile score · Grants Pass, OR
29/100
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 F
11.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
19.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$56,877
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.
Violent crime F
404 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Grants Pass profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 35/100 (F) · 11.3%
Bachelor's+ share: 33/100 (F) · 19.7%
Household income: 30/100 (F) · $56,877
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Violent crime: 22/100 (F) · 404 /100k
Where Grants Pass sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Grants Pass'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 - Grants Pass highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Grants Pass, OR (this city): home $364,200, crime 3,308/100k
Greer, SC : home $264,300, crime 2,072/100k
Park Ridge, IL : home $539,300, crime 944/100k
Royal Palm Beach, FL : home $389,300, crime 1,637/100k
Bettendorf, IA : home $295,600, crime 972/100k
Keizer, OR : home $396,700, crime 2,057/100k
Lake Oswego, OR : home $894,000, crime 1,166/100k
Oregon City, OR : home $531,400, crime 1,556/100k
Redmond, OR : home $435,000, crime 2,563/100k
McMinnville, OR : home $391,100, crime 1,655/100k
How does Grants Pass compare to other US cities?
Grants Pass measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income30% higher than other cities
Home value74% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
Safety13% 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: Grants Pass ranks #73 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 Grants Pass 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 Grants Pass near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Grants Pass ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Grants Pass only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#265 of 364
27th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#170 of 366
54th percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#97 of 395
75th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#222 of 395
44th 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
30th percentile nationally for median household income · 13th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Grants Pass's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Grants Pass'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 Grants Pass's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$364,20026th percentilemore affordable than 26% 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
Grants Pass's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,383 of 15,516
More affordable than 7% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,035 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 6.4×, Grants Pass sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,383 of 15,516 and #3,035 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$56,877Grants Pass, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Grants Pass, 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 Grants Pass, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
39,183
Median Income
$56,877
Median Home Value
$364,200
Median Age
40.8
Poverty Rate
11.3%
Labor force participation
52.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3308.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
404.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2904.4
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
55.6°F
Annual Precipitation
31.3"
Annual Snowfall
0.9"
Schools
Total Schools
21
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Grants Pass's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
39,210 residents
2021
39,420 residents
2022
39,105 residents
2023
39,275 residents
2024
39,376 residents
2025
39,239 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
94
housing units authorized
Single-Family
66
detached homes
Multifamily
28
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
114
80
34
$22.6M
2020
174
124
50
$36.6M
2021
162
94
68
$31.2M
2022
177
85
92
$33.0M
2023
103
66
37
$29.8M
2024
94
66
28
$23.6M
Permit volume decreased 18% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
16.0 minutes
Drive Alone
74.0%
Carpool
11.9%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
2.6%
Work from Home
9.1%
Other
1.7%
Based on 16,308 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 Grants Pass. 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 Grants Pass 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 Grants Pass sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Grants Pass 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.