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SheetOR-ST-PAUL-OR · St. Paul, OR 450 pop · income 84th 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 St. Paul
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest St. Paul on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Chiloquin · lowest
34,659
Chiloquin · lowest
34,659 median HH income
30.6% of the leader · rank #1
Centerton · near
112,920
Centerton · near
112,920 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
St. Paul · this city
113,000
St. Paul · this city
113,000 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
St. Libory · near
113,000
St. Libory · near
113,000 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Budd Lake · near
113,036
Budd Lake · near
113,036 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Wekiwa Springs · near
113,067
Wekiwa Springs · near
113,067 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
West Belmar · highest
113,083
West Belmar · highest
113,083 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 St. Paul 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: 450.
St. Paul ranks in the 84th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
84th
percentile, household income
86th
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: St. Paul, OR
450 people live in St. Paul, Oregon - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in St. Paul report a median income of $113,000 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.4%. Typical homes in St. Paul are valued around $523,900, and the median resident age is 42.6 years. Educational attainment runs 35.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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). 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 St. Paul'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 comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For St. Paul, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for St. Paul?
Within Oregon, the closest population matches are Gates (451 residents, $60,313 income); Wimer (449 residents, $37,639 income); Fossil (448 residents, $48,438 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Sacaton Flats, AZ (450 residents); Crescent City, IL (450 residents); Huntsville, OH (450 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.
Is St. Paul growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -4 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.9% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in St. Paul?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in St. Paul?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.4%, 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.
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 A-
$113,000
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
35.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
St. Paul profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 83/100 (A-) · $113,000
Poverty rate: 83/100 (A-) · 2.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 68/100 (B-) · 35.8%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
How does St. Paul compare to other US cities?
Where St. Paul sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income84% higher than other cities
Home value86% 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 St. Paul 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 St. Paul near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, St. Paul ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares St. Paul only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#34 of 364
91st percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#62 of 366
83rd percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#296 of 395
25th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#83 of 395
79th 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
84th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How St. Paul's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$523,90014th percentilemore affordable than 14% 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
St. Paul's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,256 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,354 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.6×, St. Paul sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,256 of 15,516 and #9,354 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$113,000St. Paul, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context St. Paul, 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 St. Paul, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)35.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
450
Median Income
$113,000
Median Home Value
$523,900
Median Age
42.6
Poverty Rate
2.4%
Labor force participation
65.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
35.8%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
St. Paul's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
433 residents
2021
434 residents
2022
429 residents
2023
427 residents
2024
428 residents
2025
429 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
83.4%
Carpool
7.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
8.5%
Other
0.9%
Based on 223 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 St. Paul. 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 St. Paul 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 St. Paul sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How St. Paul 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.