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SheetOR-WALLOWA-OR · Wallowa, OR 609 pop · income 16th 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 Wallowa
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wallowa on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Condon · lowest
38,393
Condon · lowest
38,393 median HH income
36.2% of the leader · rank #1
Appomattox · near
47,795
Appomattox · near
47,795 median HH income
45.1% of the leader · rank #2
Brooksville · near
47,796
Brooksville · near
47,796 median HH income
45.1% of the leader · rank #3
Covington · near
47,797
Covington · near
47,797 median HH income
45.1% of the leader · rank #4
Wallowa · this city
47,798
Wallowa · this city
47,798 median HH income
45.1% of the leader · rank #5
Parma · near
47,798
Parma · near
47,798 median HH income
45.1% of the leader · rank #6
Remy · highest
106,000
Remy · highest
106,000 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 Wallowa 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: 609.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Wallowa places in the 16th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
16th
percentile, household income
68th
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: Wallowa, OR
Oregon's Wallowa is a small town, with 609 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $47,798 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.2%. Home values in Wallowa run a median of $318,400, and the median resident age is 42.1 years. About 17.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 53.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA puts Wallowa's yearly average temperature at 46.8°F with 18.0 inches of precipitation per year and 47.9 inches of snowfall.
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. Workers in Wallowa report an average commute of 13.5 minutes, with 42.9% driving alone and 41.7% 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 Wallowa'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 schools and households to population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Wallowa, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Wallowa?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 17.5% 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 +22 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.8% 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Wallowa?
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 6.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wallowa?
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.
Within Oregon, the closest population matches are San Marine (611 residents, $75,123 income); Condon (621 residents, $38,393 income); Oregon Shores (623 residents, $86,127 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lynnview, KY (609 residents); Clarkson, NE (609 residents); Remy, OK (609 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 Wallowa?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 42.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 13.5 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. 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
42.9%
Work from home
41.7%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 252 workers age 16+.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 46.8°F, with 18.0 inches of precipitation and 47.9 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Oregon is 63.4 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
63.4
Annual precipitation
18.0 in
Mean temperature
46.8°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
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 B
4.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.5%
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.
Household income F
$47,798
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Wallowa profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 27/100 (F) · 17.5%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Household income: 17/100 (F) · $47,798
How does Wallowa compare to other US cities?
Here's how Wallowa stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income16% higher than other cities
Home value68% 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 Wallowa 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 Wallowa near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wallowa ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wallowa only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#316 of 364
13th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#208 of 366
42nd percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#252 of 395
36th percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#251 of 395
36th 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
16th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Wallowa's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$318,40032nd 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
Wallowa's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,508 of 15,516
More affordable than 7% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,706 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 6.7×, Wallowa sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,508 of 15,516 and #10,706 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$47,798Wallowa, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wallowa, 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 Wallowa, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
609
Median Income
$47,798
Median Home Value
$318,400
Median Age
42.1
Poverty Rate
4.2%
Labor force participation
53.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.5%
Climate
Avg Temperature
46.8°F
Annual Precipitation
18.0"
Annual Snowfall
47.9"
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Wallowa's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
797 residents
2021
813 residents
2022
823 residents
2023
823 residents
2024
819 residents
2025
819 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
13.5 minutes
Drive Alone
42.9%
Carpool
11.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
4.4%
Work from Home
41.7%
Based on 252 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 Wallowa. 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 Wallowa 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 Wallowa sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wallowa 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, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, 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.