City safety & data profile
PendletonOR
Pendleton, OR is a 17K-resident city in Umatilla County with a median household income of $66,563.
Umatilla County, Oregon. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Pendleton, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Pendleton has a population larger than 35% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $287,100, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
- 17K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 36%
- By size
- $66,563
- Median income (place)
- $287,100
- Median home (place)
- 15%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Pendleton
Pendleton posts a median household income higher than 32% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Pendleton area.
- Bottom 33%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Pendleton
Composite score · Pendleton, OR
35/100
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.
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.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
See the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Pendleton income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$66,563 Bottom 32% higher than 32% 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 By headcount, Portland ranks #1 here -- income honors go to Bethany.
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 Pendleton, OR beyond the headline numbers
Pendleton sits inside Umatilla County, Oregon, at roughly 45.67°N, -118.79°W. Population 16,881, $66,563 median household income. Median home value $287,100, median rent $956. Poverty rate 15%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Pendleton, 3/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER. Climate: 52.9°F annual average.
Among the CDC measures on this page, current asthma departs furthest from its peer median: 12.3% in Pendleton, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,722 cities reporting that measure.
A typical renter in Pendleton, OR pays $956/month, in the cheapest quarter of reporting cities -- rent here is not what strains a local paycheck.
Only 7.9% of Pendleton workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Poverty in Pendleton, OR stands at 15%, 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.
24.7% of Pendleton adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
A median home in Pendleton runs about 4.3 times median household income, above the midpoint. Multiples in this range usually mean buyers are arriving from outside the local wage base.
Unemployment in Pendleton sits at 4.8%, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Pendleton 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 (Umatilla County): Pendleton'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
The clearest outlier in Pendleton's numbers is median rent: $956/mo, which is 38% below what's typical across the tracked-city set. A second figure worth noting: median household income at $66,563, 26% below the tracked-city average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 15% +21% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 4.8% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 24.7% |
| Work From Home | 7.9% |
| Public Transit | 0.8% |
By the Numbers
Health at a Glance 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 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 NormalsNFIP Flood Claim History
FEMA NFIP, county-levelUmatilla County has recorded 51 National Flood Insurance Program claims totaling $1.5M in payouts since 2016.
Most claims in this county are not tied to a single named storm or hurricane in the NFIP record.
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 Pendleton?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Pendleton right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet OR-PENDLETON · Pendleton
Pendleton: 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 Pendleton; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Oregon state hubs · Methodology
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Cities nationwide with a comparable poverty or income figure 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Pendleton, 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% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside OR ($66,563 here).
Compare Pendleton 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.
In the Area 8
Using Pendleton'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 Pendleton area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Pendleton 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 (Umatilla 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.