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Place dossier plate
SheetOR-SPRINGFIELD-OR · Springfield, OR 61,642 pop · income 46th 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 Springfield
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Springfield 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
37.8% of the leader · rank #1
Umatilla · near
67,206
Umatilla · near
67,206 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #2
Orebank · near
67,207
Orebank · near
67,207 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #3
Springfield · this city
67,211
Springfield · this city
67,211 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #4
Creston · near
67,212
Creston · near
67,212 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #5
Columbus · near
67,212
Columbus · near
67,212 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #6
Encinitas · highest
150,471
Encinitas · highest
150,471 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 Springfield 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: 61,642.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Springfield - the verdict
Nationally, Springfield sits in the 46th percentile for household income and the 15th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
46th
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
15th
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: Springfield, OR
Springfield is a small city in Oregon, home to 61,642 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Springfield report a median income of $67,211 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.9%. Home values in Springfield run a median of $323,800, and the median resident age is 37.2 years. 21.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 382 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 526% from five years earlier. Springfield's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3097.2 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,425 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $185 across Oregon, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Springfield workers runs 18.1 minutes, with 71.4% driving alone and 8.9% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 63.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Springfield'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 work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Springfield, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
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 does the journey to work look like in Springfield?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.1 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.
What does the education layer cover for Springfield?
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. 21.6% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Springfield?
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 Corvallis (60,424 residents, $63,807 income); Albany (56,773 residents, $73,809 income); Tigard (55,395 residents, $105,008 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Encinitas, CA (61,585 residents); Florence-Graham, CA (61,723 residents); Marietta, GA (61,773 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Springfield?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3097.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 36% 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Springfield?
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 4.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.8×
Home value
$323,800
Household income
$67,211
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Springfield growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -449 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 382 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.
2020 estimate
61,880
2025 estimate
61,431
Period change
-0.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 10.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Oregon average
F
City profile score · Springfield, OR
36/100
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 D
$67,211
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
10.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
306 /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.
Springfield profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 45/100 (D) · $67,211
Bachelor's+ share: 39/100 (F) · 21.6%
Poverty rate: 36/100 (F) · 10.9%
Violent crime: 32/100 (F) · 306 /100k
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Springfield sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Springfield'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 - Springfield highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Springfield, OR (this city): home $323,800, crime 3,097/100k
Encinitas, CA : home $1,466,000, crime 1,156/100k
Marietta, GA : home $401,100, crime 2,109/100k
Wellington, FL : home $557,100, crime 925/100k
Montebello, CA : home $660,700, crime 3,108/100k
Corvallis, OR : home $480,600, crime 2,695/100k
Albany, OR : home $352,900, crime 2,027/100k
Tigard, OR : home $585,700, crime 3,781/100k
Lake Oswego, OR : home $894,000, crime 1,166/100k
Grants Pass, OR : home $364,200, crime 3,308/100k
How does Springfield compare to other US cities?
Here's how Springfield stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income46% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
Safety15% 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, Springfield ranks #70 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 Springfield 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 Springfield near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Springfield ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Springfield only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#205 of 364
44th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#202 of 366
45th percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#102 of 395
74th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#202 of 395
49th 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
46th percentile nationally for median household income · 15th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Springfield's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Springfield'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 Springfield's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$323,80032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
Springfield's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,586 of 15,516
More affordable than 19% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#429 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.8×, Springfield sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,586 of 15,516 and #429 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$67,211Springfield, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Springfield, 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 Springfield, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
61,642
Median Income
$67,211
Median Home Value
$323,800
Median Age
37.2
Poverty Rate
10.9%
Labor force participation
62.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3097.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
305.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2791.4
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
21
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Springfield's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
61,880 residents
2021
61,949 residents
2022
61,373 residents
2023
61,139 residents
2024
61,162 residents
2025
61,431 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
382
housing units authorized
Single-Family
184
detached homes
Multifamily
198
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
61
57
4
$14.3M
2020
166
90
76
$31.3M
2021
247
233
14
$65.3M
2022
203
201
2
$57.8M
2023
210
206
4
$60.7M
2024
382
184
198
$91.5M
Permit volume increased 526% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.1 minutes
Drive Alone
71.4%
Carpool
11.4%
Public Transit
2.6%
Walk
2.4%
Work from Home
8.9%
Other
3.3%
Based on 30,579 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 Springfield. 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 Springfield 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 Springfield sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Springfield 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.