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Place dossier plate
SheetOR-MILWAUKIE-OR · Milwaukie, OR 21,256 pop · income 64th 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 Milwaukie
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Milwaukie on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Klamath Falls · lowest
47,268
Klamath Falls · lowest
47,268 median HH income
28.3% of the leader · rank #1
Bug Tussle · near
82,417
Bug Tussle · near
82,417 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #2
Milwaukie · this city
82,422
Milwaukie · this city
82,422 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #3
Wallington · near
82,422
Wallington · near
82,422 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #4
Raleigh · near
82,424
Raleigh · near
82,424 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #5
Rote · near
82,426
Rote · near
82,426 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #6
Cedar Mill · highest
167,037
Cedar Mill · highest
167,037 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 Milwaukie 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: 21,256.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Milwaukie - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Milwaukie places in the 64th percentile for household income and the 39th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
64th
percentile, household income
83rd
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
39th
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: Milwaukie, OR
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 21,256 residents in Milwaukie, a small city within Oregon. Milwaukie households earn a median of $82,422 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.7%. Typical homes in Milwaukie are valued around $477,200, and the median resident age is 39.9 years. About 40.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 66.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 307 residential building permits were authorized in Milwaukie (Building Boom), up 730% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Milwaukie reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1719.9 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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,425 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Oregon's average monthly utility costs around $185 (state average). 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 Milwaukie'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Milwaukie, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history.
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.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Milwaukie?
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 1719.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 25% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Milwaukie?
Within Oregon, the closest population matches are Ashland (21,343 residents, $71,782 income); Klamath Falls (21,879 residents, $47,268 income); Sherwood (20,227 residents, $110,616 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Hunters Creek, FL (21,255 residents); Elmwood Park, NJ (21,287 residents); Mustang, OK (21,290 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 does the education layer cover for Milwaukie?
The NCES join finds 17 public schools within the city match. 40.9% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Milwaukie?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 63.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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 Milwaukie 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 +940 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 307 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
+4.4%
2025 estimate
22,114
2020 estimate
21,174
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Milwaukie?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.7%, 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
$82,422
Home value
$477,200
Value / income
5.8×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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 A-
2.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C+
$82,422
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime D
193 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Milwaukie profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.7%
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 40.9%
Household income: 62/100 (C+) · $82,422
Violent crime: 49/100 (D) · 193 /100k
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Milwaukie sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Milwaukie'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 - Milwaukie highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Milwaukie, OR (this city): home $477,200, crime 1,720/100k
Elmwood Park, NJ : home $456,000, crime 2,468/100k
Mustang, OK : home $227,800, crime 807/100k
Battle Ground, WA : home $452,000, crime 1,115/100k
Lebanon, OH : home $257,100, crime 1,205/100k
Geneva, IL : home $415,800, crime 584/100k
Ashland, OR : home $573,700, crime 2,019/100k
Klamath Falls, OR : home $257,400, crime 3,172/100k
Sherwood, OR : home $564,200, crime 1,651/100k
How does Milwaukie compare to other US cities?
Milwaukie measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income64% higher than other cities
Home value83% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
Safety39% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Oregon alone, Milwaukie ranks #35 of 85 Oregon cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Milwaukie 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 Milwaukie near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Milwaukie ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Milwaukie only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#127 of 364
65th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#79 of 366
78th percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#290 of 395
26th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#66 of 395
83rd 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
64th percentile nationally for median household income · 39th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Milwaukie's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Milwaukie'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 Milwaukie's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$477,20017th percentilemore affordable than 17% 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
Milwaukie's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,897 of 15,516
More affordable than 10% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,912 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.8×, Milwaukie sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,897 of 15,516 and #2,912 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
$82,422Milwaukie, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Milwaukie, 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 Milwaukie, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
21,256
Median Income
$82,422
Median Home Value
$477,200
Median Age
39.9
Poverty Rate
2.7%
Labor force participation
66.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1719.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
193.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1526.8
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
17
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Milwaukie's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
21,174 residents
2021
21,059 residents
2022
21,374 residents
2023
21,624 residents
2024
21,574 residents
2025
22,114 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
307
housing units authorized
Single-Family
32
detached homes
Multifamily
275
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
14.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
37
37
0
$11.9M
2020
39
39
0
$12.4M
2021
286
37
249
$45.7M
2022
249
15
234
$60.2M
2023
23
19
4
$3.5M
2024
307
32
275
$56.5M
Permit volume increased 730% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
63.2%
Carpool
6.9%
Public Transit
3.4%
Walk
2.7%
Work from Home
22.3%
Other
1.5%
Based on 11,831 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 Milwaukie. 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 Milwaukie 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 Milwaukie sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Milwaukie 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.