97008Beaverton, Oregon

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 97008.

64out of 100
Area Score
Top 35% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3745th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured50
SchoolsTop 20% of 4,422 ZIP areas measured75
GrowthTop 12% of 5,428 ZIP areas measured73
Housing affordability4958th of 6,685 ZIP areas measured63
ClimateTop 38% of 6,789 ZIP areas measured73
Physical resilience3651st of 6,709 ZIP areas measured54
Access3487th of 6,791 ZIP areas measured92
Economic stabilityTop 32% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured69
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.2% and median household income $96,116, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 1,127 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 304% on the prior year.

A major airport is 13 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
28,611
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$96,116
Top 22% nationally
Density
5,400/sq mi
5.3 sq mi of land
Median age
40.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Beaverton
Oregon
Metro area
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
Nearest major airport
PDX
13 mi · Portland Intl
Median home value
$578,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.2% is lower than 22% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.8% over the past year, to 54,184 employed residents.

50% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 88% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$10,030$96,116Top 22%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,593$50,998Top 18%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate10.6%Top 50%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute26.5 minBottom 43%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher50.4%Top 12%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment54,184Top 50%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.1%Bottom 31%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.8%Bottom 48%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force57,141Top 50%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation68.8%Top 18%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$78,430Top 17%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$60,690Top 16%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.2%Top 43%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate5.2%Top 22%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202496k77k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $96,116 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers34,840$35,620
Retail Salespersons28,230$37,340
Stockers and Order Fillers26,750$44,440
Registered Nurses24,220$130,310
Home Health and Personal Care Aides22,860$45,570
General and Operations Managers21,070$121,050

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Beaverton, OR, the city containing this ZIP code.

51% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 65% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.8 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
51.4%
Top 16% in Oregon
Reading proficiency
65.2%
Top 15% in Oregon
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Southridge High SchoolBeaverton SD 48J1,43018.1
Conestoga Middle SchoolBeaverton SD 48J81018.855%70%
Whitford Middle SchoolBeaverton SD 48J77017.550%70%
Vose Elementary SchoolBeaverton SD 48J66614.530%
Highland Park Middle SchoolBeaverton SD 48J60018.2
Hiteon Elementary SchoolBeaverton SD 48J48618.062%70%
Arco Iris Spanish Immersion School · charterBeaverton SD 48J41717.456%56%
Fir Grove Elementary SchoolBeaverton SD 48J33714.070%50%
Greenway Elementary SchoolBeaverton SD 48J27214.3
McKay Elementary SchoolBeaverton SD 48J24211.5

55.7% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Oregon’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,763 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 6.0 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
22.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
6.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,763
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$578,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income6.01Top 10%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate56.9%Bottom 14%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±70112,603Top 12%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$52$1,763Top 14%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$15,084$578,100Top 10%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.0%Top 25%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.9%Bottom 17%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
73/ 100
Top 12% of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

72% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 11.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
1,127
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
11.5
Top 8% nationally
Year over year
+304%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
72.3%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Beaverton, OR, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 82°F and January a low of 34°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 35.9 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 33, in the Good band, and about 2 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PORTLAND-HILLSBORO AP, 9.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND6.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index53.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation35.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low34°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10022024 calendar year
Median air quality index33.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing27°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
33
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
53
90th percentile index
Days above 100
2
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

54 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake and heat wave.

EarthquakeElevated
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, ice storm, cold wave, volcanic activity, landslide, lightning, strong wind, winter weather, tornado, wildfire, hail, drought, avalanche.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Washington County records 2.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 8.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.7 per 100,000 residents in Washington County.

Homicide
2.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
8.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
12.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Washington County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 97008 rather than 97008 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 13 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Portland IntlPDX13 mi11,000 ft
Mahlon Sweet FldEUG94 mi8,009 ft
Seattle-Tacoma IntlSEA139 mi11,901 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

97008 vs Beaverton

How this ZIP area compares with Beaverton as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

97008
Beaverton
Median household income
$96,116
vs
$98,622
Per capita income
$50,998
vs
$52,507
Population density
5,400/sq mi
vs
4,956/sq mi
Median home value
$578,100
vs
$569,800
Median gross rent
$1,763
vs
$1,826
Homeownership rate
56.9%
vs
50.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
50.4%
vs
50.1%
Poverty rate
10.6%
vs
10.1%
Median age
40.6
vs
37.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.