City safety & data profile
AshlandOR
Ashland, OR is a 21K-resident city in Jackson County with a median household income of $68,028.
Jackson County, Oregon. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Ashland, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Ashland has a population larger than 46% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $583,800, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
- 21K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 47%
- By size
- $68,028
- Median income (place)
- $583,800
- Median home (place)
- 15.2%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Ashland
Ashland posts a median household income higher than 34% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Ashland area.
- Bottom 35%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Ashland
Composite score · Ashland, OR
51/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
A transparent index Areazine derives from Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published, not an official Census Bureau or FBI rating. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary): every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Curious how Ashland stacks up nationwide? See the full tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Ashland income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$68,028 Bottom 34% higher than 34% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. 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, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
OR cities ranked by population
Ranked by headcount across the 57 OR places Areazine tracks with both population and income data. Tooltip carries the income rank.
- Portland
Portland, OR
652,503 residents
- Eugene 176,654
Eugene, OR
176,654 residents
- Salem 175,535
Salem, OR
175,535 residents
- Gresham 110,553
Gresham, OR
110,553 residents
- Hillsboro 102,347
Hillsboro, OR
102,347 residents
- Beaverton 96,577
Beaverton, OR
96,577 residents
- Bend 87,014
Bend, OR
87,014 residents
- Medford 79,805
Medford, OR
79,805 residents
- Springfield 60,870
Springfield, OR
60,870 residents
- Corvallis 55,780
Corvallis, OR
55,780 residents
What this shows Portland tops this pool by population; the income lead belongs to Bethany instead.
Highest median incomes in OR
Median household income among the same 57-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.
- Bethany
Bethany, OR
$167,735 median
- Cedar Mill
Cedar Mill, OR
$164,079 median
- West Linn
West Linn, OR
$146,507 median
- Lake Oswego
Lake Oswego, OR
$141,549 median
- Oak Hills
Oak Hills, OR
$127,179 median
- Damascus
Damascus, OR
$122,500 median
- Happy Valley
Happy Valley, OR
$122,151 median
- Sherwood
Sherwood, OR
$109,966 median
- Sandy
Sandy, OR
$108,984 median
- Tigard
Tigard, OR
$108,823 median
What this shows Income honors go to Bethany here -- by headcount, that title belongs to Portland.
The quick read
Reading Ashland, OR beyond the headline numbers
Ashland sits inside Jackson County, Oregon, at roughly 42.19°N, -122.71°W. Population 20,861, $68,028 median household income. Median home value $583,800, median rent $1,387. Poverty rate 15.2%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Ashland, 0 with an ER. Climate: 52.2°F annual average, 19.6" precipitation.
The median home in Ashland costs around 8.6 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.
At 47.7 years, Ashland's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
A bachelor's degree or higher is common in Ashland: 66.2% of adults, the highest quarter of reporting cities -- a labor pool skewed toward credentialed work.
Among the CDC measures on this page, current asthma departs furthest from its peer median: 12.1% in Ashland, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,722 cities reporting that measure.
21.1% of Ashland workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.
Poverty in Ashland, OR stands at 15.2%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
Unemployment in Ashland sits at 6.1%, above the midpoint of reporting cities.
Median rent in Ashland, OR runs $1,387/month, below the midpoint for reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Ashland from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Jackson County): Ashland's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
The clearest outlier in Ashland's numbers is median household income: $68,028, which is 24% below what's typical across the tracked-city set. Poverty rate also diverges: 15.2%, 23% above average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 15.2% +23% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 6.1% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 66.2% |
| Work From Home | 21.1% |
| Public Transit | 0.4% |
Population Snapshot
Health Snapshot 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsCost of Living
BEA 20241.4% above national average
Metro area: Medford, OR (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
Flood Insurance Claims History
FEMA NFIP, county-level19 flood insurance claims have been filed in Jackson County since 2016, with $159K paid out by the NFIP.
The NFIP record does not attribute most of this county's claims to one named flood event.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect Ashland?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Ashland right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet OR-ASHLAND-OR · Ashland
Ashland: 1 tagged alert; lead category NWS weather alert.
- VOL-TRACE 1 on record
- WX-LED 100% weather
- DESK-MIX NOAA
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston
Tagged alert mix: Ashland
Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag
- Weather Alerts
Weather Alerts
1
What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for Ashland.
Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Ashland; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Oregon state hubs · Methodology
Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4
Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Ashland, both outside Oregon so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside OR (15.2% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside OR ($68,028 here).
Compare Ashland with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Places 8
Using Ashland's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
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U.S. Census ACS supplies the place-level population and economics figures (income, home value, poverty, education); CDC PLACES supplies health; hospital counts reflect nearby facilities. County-level trends carry their own label.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Jackson County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-16.