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Place dossier plate
SheetWI-OREGON-WI · Oregon, WI 11,384 pop · income 78th 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 Oregon
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Oregon on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
La Homa · lowest
41,198
La Homa · lowest
41,198 median HH income
24.5% of the leader · rank #1
Woodbridge · near
100,682
Woodbridge · near
100,682 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #2
New Salem · near
100,688
New Salem · near
100,688 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #3
Edison · near
100,689
Edison · near
100,689 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #4
Maple · near
100,694
Maple · near
100,694 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #5
Oregon · this city
100,695
Oregon · this city
100,695 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #6
East Grand Ra… · highest
168,487
East Grand Ra… · highest
168,487 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 Oregon 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: 11,384.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Oregon - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Oregon lands in the 78th percentile for household income and the 92nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
78th
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
29th
percentile, median rent
92nd
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: Oregon, WI
Oregon is a small town in Wisconsin, home to 11,384 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $100,695 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.3%. Home values in Oregon run a median of $361,200, and the median resident age is 39.5 years. 47.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 71.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 134 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 76% from five years earlier. Oregon reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 321.1 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Wisconsin run below the national norm: the state registers 94.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Below Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,097 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Wisconsin's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). Commute times here average 19.1 minutes, with 72.0% driving alone and 19.0% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. Natural-hazard exposure scores 59.1 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Oregon'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Oregon, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
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 Oregon?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.1 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. 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Oregon?
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. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Oregon?
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 Wisconsin, the closest population matches are Platteville (11,421 residents, $42,667 income); Waupun (11,244 residents, $66,931 income); Two Rivers (11,224 residents, $58,716 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Batesville, AR (11,385 residents); La Homa, TX (11,389 residents); Spencer, IA (11,393 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +776 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 134 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Oregon?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 321.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 86% lower 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
321.1
Violent rate
42.3
Property rate
278.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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 8 public schools within the city match. 47.7% 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.
Poverty estimate
5.3%
Bachelor's degree+
47.7%
Matched public schools
8
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Wisconsin average
B+
City profile score · Oregon, WI
75/100
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.
Violent crime A
42 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A-
47.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$100,695
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living B-
94.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate C+
5.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Oregon profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 86/100 (A) · 42 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 82/100 (A-) · 47.7%
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,695
Cost of living: 68/100 (B-) · 94.1 index
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.3%
Where Oregon sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Oregon'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 - Oregon highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Oregon, WI (this city): home $361,200, crime 321/100k
Batesville, AR : home $159,200, crime 1,901/100k
Spencer, IA : home $178,300, crime 1,043/100k
East Grand Rapids, MI : home $488,500, crime 1,145/100k
Grosse Pointe Park, MI : home $460,500, crime 1,584/100k
Platteville, WI : home $186,900, crime 1,641/100k
Waupun, WI : home $167,700, crime 662/100k
Two Rivers, WI : home $121,800, crime 700/100k
Marinette, WI : home $111,600, crime 1,842/100k
Holmen, WI : home $262,600, crime 513/100k
Burlington, WI : home $268,300, crime 1,060/100k
How does Oregon compare to other US cities?
Where Oregon sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent29% pricier than other cities
Safety92% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Wisconsin alone, Oregon ranks #22 of 202 Wisconsin cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Oregon against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Wisconsin only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Wisconsin-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Oregon near the bottom of Wisconsin's cities
Among the 761 Wisconsin cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Oregon ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Oregon only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#81 of 753
89th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 761
0th percentile in Wisconsin
Median Home Value
#52 of 754
93rd percentile in Wisconsin
Poverty Rate
#381 of 761
48th percentile in Wisconsin
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#60 of 761
92nd percentile in Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
78th percentile nationally for median household income · 92nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Oregon's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Oregon'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 Oregon's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$361,20027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
Oregon's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,315 of 15,516
More affordable than 40% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,574 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, Oregon sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,315 of 15,516 and #1,574 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$100,695Oregon, WI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Oregon, WI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Oregon, WI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)47.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,384
Median Income
$100,695
Median Home Value
$361,200
Median Age
39.5
Poverty Rate
5.3%
Labor force participation
71.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
47.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
321.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
42.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
278.9
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
8
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Oregon's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
11,239 residents
2021
11,516 residents
2022
11,477 residents
2023
11,592 residents
2024
11,846 residents
2025
12,015 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
134
housing units authorized
Single-Family
80
detached homes
Multifamily
54
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
11.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
76
76
0
$24.8M
2020
122
65
57
$29.6M
2021
200
47
153
$37.0M
2022
63
63
0
$29.5M
2023
139
65
74
$45.0M
2024
134
80
54
$48.7M
Permit volume increased 76% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.1 minutes
Drive Alone
72.0%
Carpool
5.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
19.0%
Other
1.4%
Based on 6,156 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Wisconsin statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Wisconsin at $225 (electricity about $100 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Wisconsin statewide averages, not a meter reading for Oregon. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Wisconsin's BEA cost-of-living index is 94.1 (Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Oregon is $1,097/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Wisconsin statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 59.1 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Wisconsin statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Oregon sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Oregon compares to similar-size Wisconsin 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.