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Place dossier plate
SheetOR-REDMOND-OR · Redmond, OR 35,161 pop · income 61st 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 Redmond
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Redmond on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Grants Pass · lowest
56,877
Grants Pass · lowest
56,877 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #1
Redmond · this city
79,789
Redmond · this city
79,789 median HH income
48.6% of the leader · rank #2
Clermont · near
79,789
Clermont · near
79,789 median HH income
48.6% of the leader · rank #3
Hayti · near
79,792
Hayti · near
79,792 median HH income
48.6% of the leader · rank #4
Madeira Beach · near
79,798
Madeira Beach · near
79,798 median HH income
48.6% of the leader · rank #5
Boiling Sprin… · near
79,798
Boiling Sprin… · near
79,798 median HH income
48.6% 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 Redmond 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: 35,161.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Redmond - the verdict
Nationally, Redmond sits in the 61st percentile for household income and the 21st percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
61st
percentile, household income
80th
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
21st
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: Redmond, OR
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 35,161 residents in Redmond, a small city within Oregon. The typical household in Redmond brings in $79,789 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.2%. Typical homes in Redmond are valued around $435,000, and the median resident age is 36.1 years. Educational attainment runs 29.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 63.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 522 residential building permits were authorized in Redmond (Construction Slowdown), down 32% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2563.0 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).
Oregon carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Oregon scores 103.4 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,425 monthly. 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 Redmond'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 schools and households to population change 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 Redmond, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, 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 can the FBI record say about safety in Redmond?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2563.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 12% 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.
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 11 public schools within the city match. 29.3% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +4,759 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +14.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 522 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Redmond?
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 McMinnville (34,493 residents, $70,060 income); Oregon City (37,482 residents, $94,648 income); Bethany (31,700 residents, $164,315 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Chillum, MD (35,163 residents); Oakville, MO (35,166 residents); Wildwood, MO (35,168 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Redmond?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.5%. 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.
Drive alone
70.5%
Work from home
13.2%
Public transit
0.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 16,916 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Redmond?
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 5.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
5.5×
Home value
$435,000
Household income
$79,789
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 7.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Oregon average
D
City profile score · Redmond, OR
48/100
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 C
$79,789
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C-
7.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
218 /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.
Redmond profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 59/100 (C) · $79,789
Bachelor's+ share: 57/100 (C) · 29.3%
Poverty rate: 51/100 (C-) · 7.2%
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 218 /100k
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Redmond sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Redmond'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 - Redmond highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Redmond, OR (this city): home $435,000, crime 2,563/100k
Fair Lawn, NJ : home $532,700, crime 981/100k
Mason, OH : home $397,900, crime 565/100k
McMinnville, OR : home $391,100, crime 1,655/100k
Oregon City, OR : home $531,400, crime 1,556/100k
Keizer, OR : home $396,700, crime 2,057/100k
Grants Pass, OR : home $364,200, crime 3,308/100k
Lake Oswego, OR : home $894,000, crime 1,166/100k
How does Redmond compare to other US cities?
Where Redmond sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income61% higher than other cities
Home value80% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
Safety21% 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, Redmond ranks #55 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 Redmond 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 Redmond near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Redmond ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Redmond only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#140 of 364
62nd percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#106 of 366
71st percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#179 of 395
54th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#125 of 395
68th 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
61st percentile nationally for median household income · 21st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Redmond's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Redmond'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 Redmond's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$435,00020th percentilemore affordable than 20% 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
Redmond's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,511 of 15,516
More affordable than 13% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,796 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.5×, Redmond sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,511 of 15,516 and #2,796 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
$79,789Redmond, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Redmond, 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 Redmond, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
35,161
Median Income
$79,789
Median Home Value
$435,000
Median Age
36.1
Poverty Rate
7.2%
Labor force participation
63.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2563.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
217.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2345.4
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.
Schools
Total Schools
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Redmond's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
33,788 residents
2021
35,635 residents
2022
36,387 residents
2023
37,035 residents
2024
37,570 residents
2025
38,547 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
522
housing units authorized
Single-Family
281
detached homes
Multifamily
241
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
14.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
768
361
407
$134.4M
2020
703
551
152
$147.8M
2021
650
458
192
$139.3M
2022
435
207
228
$89.8M
2023
410
302
108
$116.6M
2024
522
281
241
$131.0M
Permit volume decreased 32% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
70.5%
Carpool
10.8%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
2.8%
Work from Home
13.2%
Other
2.4%
Based on 16,916 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 Redmond. 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 Redmond 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 Redmond sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Redmond 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.