City safety & data profile
Oak HillsOR
Oak Hills, OR is a 11K-resident city in Washington County with a median household income of $127,179.
Washington County, Oregon. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Oak Hills, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Oak Hills has a population larger than 9% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $647,800, and 5 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 11K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 10%
- By size
- $127,179
- Median income (place)
- $647,800
- Median home (place)
- 3.4%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Oak Hills
Oak Hills posts a median household income higher than 86% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 5 hospitals serve the Oak Hills area.
- Top 14%
- by median income, US cities
- 5
- hospitals in & near Oak Hills
Composite score · Oak Hills, OR
82/100
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.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; 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.
Oak Hills in context: the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Oak Hills income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$127,179 Top 14% higher than 86% 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
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 is the largest OR city on this list; Bethany leads median income.
OR cities ranked by median household income
Median household income across 57 tracked OR places. Hover a bar for its 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 Oak Hills, OR beyond the headline numbers
Oak Hills sits inside Washington County, Oregon, at roughly 45.54°N, -122.84°W. Population 11,333, $127,179 median household income. Median home value $647,800, median rent $1,935. Poverty rate 3.4%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
5 hospitals in/around Oak Hills (nearest 4.3 mi away), 3.8/5 avg rating, 4 with an ER. Climate: 55.8°F annual average, 39.3" precipitation.
31.4% of Oak Hills 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.
A bachelor's degree or higher is common in Oak Hills: 65.2% of adults, the highest quarter of reporting cities -- a labor pool skewed toward credentialed work.
Among the CDC measures on this page, physical inactivity departs furthest from its peer median: 14.7% in Oak Hills, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
Hardship is low by national standards: 3.4% of Oak Hills, OR residents live below the poverty line, in the least-affected quarter of the 3,890 cities reporting a rate.
2.2% of Oak Hills workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Oak Hills's labor market runs tight: 3.1% unemployment, in the lowest quarter of reporting cities.
$1,935/month is the median rent in Oak Hills, OR, placing it in the priciest quarter of reporting cities; housing cost is doing real work against the household budget here.
A median home in Oak Hills runs about 5.1 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Oak Hills 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.
The 10-Year Trend 2013–2024
County-level trend (Washington County): Oak Hills'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
Oak Hills's poverty rate of 3.4% runs 73% below the tracked-city average, the most notable of the economic figures Areazine tracks here. A second figure worth noting: median household income at $127,179, 42% above the tracked-city average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 3.4% -73% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 3.1% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 65.2% |
| Work From Home | 31.4% |
| Public Transit | 2.2% |
By the Numbers
Community Health 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Nearby Hospital Options 5 within 25 mi
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 NormalsCost of Living
BEA 20245.4% above national average
Metro area: Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
Flood Claims on Record
FEMA NFIP, county-level21 flood insurance claims have been filed in Washington County since 2016, with $138K paid out by the NFIP.
No single named event dominates this county's claim history: most are individual, unnamed flood losses.
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 Oak Hills?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Oak Hills right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet OR-OAK-HILLS · Oak Hills
Oak Hills: 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 Oak Hills; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Oregon state hubs · Methodology
Frequently Asked Questions 9
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Comparable cities by poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Oak Hills, both outside Oregon so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside OR (3.4% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside OR ($127,179 here).
Compare Oak Hills 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 Oak Hills's profile
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 Oak Hills area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- A median income figure alone can mislead, cross-check it against the poverty rate for the fuller picture.
- Compare Oak Hills against Oregon peers on any ranking lens. Explore Oregon
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 (Washington 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.