City safety & data profile
Klamath FallsOR
Klamath Falls, OR is a 21K-resident city in Klamath County with a median household income of $46,693.
Klamath County, Oregon. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Klamath Falls, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Klamath Falls has a population larger than 48% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $287,000, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
- 21K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 49%
- By size
- $46,693
- Median income (place)
- $287,000
- Median home (place)
- 23.4%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Klamath Falls
Klamath Falls posts a median household income higher than 6% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Klamath Falls area.
- Bottom 7%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Klamath Falls
Composite score · Klamath Falls, OR
20/100
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.
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.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Klamath Falls in context: the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Klamath Falls income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$46,693 Bottom 6% higher than 6% 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
Population ranking: OR
57 OR places (10,000+ residents, ACS income on record), sorted by population. Hover a bar for its income rank in this pool.
- 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.
Income ranking: 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 Klamath Falls, OR beyond the headline numbers
Klamath Falls sits inside Klamath County, Oregon, at roughly 42.22°N, -121.78°W. Population 21,399, $46,693 median household income. Median home value $287,000, median rent $986. Poverty rate 23.4%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Klamath Falls, 2/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER. Climate: 47.1°F annual average, 11.1" precipitation.
Among the CDC measures on this page, current asthma departs furthest from its peer median: 13.1% in Klamath Falls, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,722 cities reporting that measure.
23.4% of Klamath Falls, OR residents live below the poverty line, placing it in the hardest-hit quarter of reporting cities. Read every median on this page against that: half the households are above it, and a large minority are far below.
8.3% unemployment puts Klamath Falls in the toughest quarter of reporting cities for job availability.
The median home in Klamath Falls costs around 6.1 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.
Only 6% of Klamath Falls workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
A typical renter in Klamath Falls, OR pays $986/month, in the cheapest quarter of reporting cities -- rent here is not what strains a local paycheck.
Klamath Falls's median age is 35.2 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
24% of Klamath Falls adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Klamath Falls 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.
A Decade of Change 2013–2024
County-level trend (Klamath County): Klamath Falls'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.
Money & Work
Klamath Falls's poverty rate of 23.4% runs 89% above the tracked-city average, the most notable of the economic figures Areazine tracks here. Median household income runs 48% below average too, at $46,693.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 23.4% +89% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 8.3% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 24% |
| Work From Home | 6% |
| Public Transit | 0.3% |
Headcount
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospital Access 1 total
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsFlood Insurance Claims History
FEMA NFIP, county-levelSince 2016, NFIP has paid out $0 across 1 flood insurance claims filed in Klamath County.
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 Klamath Falls?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Klamath Falls right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet OR-KLAMATH-FALLS · Klamath Falls
Klamath Falls: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Klamath Falls; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Oregon state hubs · Methodology
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Similar poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Klamath Falls, both outside Oregon so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside OR (23.4% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside OR ($46,693 here).
Compare Klamath Falls 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 Cities 8
What to do with Klamath Falls's numbers
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Klamath Falls area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Income and poverty rate tell different stories, two places sharing a median can still diverge sharply on poverty.
- Compare Klamath Falls against Oregon peers on any ranking lens. Explore Oregon
Place-level figures for population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) come from U.S. Census ACS; health data is CDC PLACES; hospital counts cover facilities in and around the city. Any county-level trend is labeled as such.
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 (Klamath 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.