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Place dossier plate
SheetOR-TIGARD-OR · Tigard, OR 55,395 pop · income 81st 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 Tigard
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Tigard on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Valdosta · lowest
45,849
Valdosta · lowest
45,849 median HH income
32.6% of the leader · rank #1
Kensington · near
105,000
Kensington · near
105,000 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #2
Hopewell · near
105,000
Hopewell · near
105,000 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #3
Clear Lake · near
105,000
Clear Lake · near
105,000 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #4
Kings Point · near
105,000
Kings Point · near
105,000 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #5
Tigard · this city
105,008
Tigard · this city
105,008 median HH income
74.8% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Oswego · highest
140,441
Lake Oswego · highest
140,441 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 Tigard 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: 55,395.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Tigard - the verdict
Nationally, Tigard sits in the 81st percentile for household income and the 9th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
81st
percentile, household income
89th
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
9th
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: Tigard, OR
55,395 people live in Tigard, Oregon - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Tigard brings in $105,008 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.8%. Home values in Tigard run a median of $585,700, and the median resident age is 39.8 years. About 49.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 514 residential building permits were authorized in Tigard (Slowing), down 9% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Tigard's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 3780.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, above 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: the state registers 103.4 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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). 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 Tigard'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 housing and income to schools and households to population change to work and mobility to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Tigard, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, 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.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Tigard?
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 Albany (56,773 residents, $73,809 income); Aloha (53,362 residents, $96,754 income); Corvallis (60,424 residents, $63,807 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Perth Amboy, NJ (55,278 residents); Southaven, MS (55,531 residents); Arcadia, CA (55,550 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Tigard?
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 5.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 12 public schools within the city match. 49.6% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,904 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 514 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.
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 Tigard?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 62.3%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
62.3%
Work from home
24.4%
Public transit
2.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 28,533 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Tigard?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3780.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 66% 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
3780.7
Violent rate
317.3
Property rate
3463.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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.
Bachelor's+ share A-
49.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$105,008
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
317 /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.
Tigard profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 83/100 (A-) · 49.6%
Household income: 79/100 (B+) · $105,008
Poverty rate: 60/100 (C+) · 5.8%
Violent crime: 31/100 (F) · 317 /100k
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Where Tigard sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Tigard'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 - Tigard highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Tigard, OR (this city): home $585,700, crime 3,781/100k
Perth Amboy, NJ : home $339,200, crime 1,760/100k
Southaven, MS : home $214,800, crime 2,329/100k
Arcadia, CA : home $1,336,500, crime 3,051/100k
Coeur d'Alene, ID : home $451,600, crime 1,197/100k
Valdosta, GA : home $165,300, crime 4,634/100k
Chicopee, MA : home $251,800, crime 2,327/100k
Albany, OR : home $352,900, crime 2,027/100k
Corvallis, OR : home $480,600, crime 2,695/100k
Springfield, OR : home $323,800, crime 3,097/100k
Lake Oswego, OR : home $894,000, crime 1,166/100k
Grants Pass, OR : home $364,200, crime 3,308/100k
How does Tigard compare to other US cities?
Tigard measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income81% higher than other cities
Home value89% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
Safety9% 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, Tigard ranks #79 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 Tigard 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 Tigard near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Tigard ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Tigard only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#44 of 364
88th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#43 of 366
88th percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#212 of 395
46th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#40 of 395
90th 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
81st percentile nationally for median household income · 9th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Tigard's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Tigard'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 Tigard's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$585,70011th percentilemore affordable than 11% 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
Tigard's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,674 of 15,516
More affordable than 12% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#531 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 5.6×, Tigard sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,674 of 15,516 and #531 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$105,008Tigard, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Tigard, 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 Tigard, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)49.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
55,395
Median Income
$105,008
Median Home Value
$585,700
Median Age
39.8
Poverty Rate
5.8%
Labor force participation
63.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
49.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3780.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
317.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3463.4
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
12
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Tigard's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
55,025 residents
2021
55,911 residents
2022
55,759 residents
2023
55,927 residents
2024
57,047 residents
2025
57,929 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
514
housing units authorized
Single-Family
322
detached homes
Multifamily
192
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
567
255
312
$102.6M
2020
632
134
498
$94.3M
2021
357
213
144
$93.1M
2022
293
183
110
$80.5M
2023
581
309
272
$173.4M
2024
514
322
192
$189.7M
Permit volume decreased 9% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
62.3%
Carpool
7.6%
Public Transit
2.9%
Walk
2.1%
Work from Home
24.4%
Other
0.7%
Based on 28,533 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 Tigard. 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 Tigard 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 Tigard sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Tigard 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.