97333Corvallis, Oregon

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 97333.

60out of 100
Area Score
Top 50% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3567th of 6,210 published ZIP areas51
GrowthTop 2% of 5,428 published ZIP areas86
Housing affordability6100th of 6,685 published ZIP areas45
ClimateTop 37% of 6,789 published ZIP areas73
Physical resilience4086th of 6,709 published ZIP areas48
Access4783rd of 6,791 published ZIP areas86
Economic stability4966th of 6,742 published ZIP areas45
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.0% and median household income $65,191, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 606 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 621% on the prior year.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 7.8 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 25% of it.

At a glance

Population
23,934
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$65,191
Bottom 39% nationally
Density
214/sq mi
112.0 sq mi of land
Median age
29.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Corvallis
Oregon
Metro area
Corvallis, OR
Nearest major airport
EUG
24 mi · Mahlon Sweet Fld
Median home value
$511,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.0% is lower than 28% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.4% over the past year, to 30,958 employed residents.

59% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 93% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,876$65,191Bottom 39%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,257$40,616Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate25.7%Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute20.7 minBottom 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher59.2%Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment30,958Bottom 32%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.6%Top 42%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.4%Top 36%June 2026
Labor force32,582Bottom 32%June 2026
Labor force participation64.3%Top 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$74,000Top 26%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$57,680Top 22%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.2%Top 43%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.0%Top 28%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202465k57k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $65,191 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 — Corvallis, OR
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers1,310$33,350
Registered Nurses970
Retail Salespersons810$35,410
Cashiers750$34,740
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners700$35,900
General and Operations Managers670$93,320

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 Corvallis, OR, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 15.5 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Adams Elementary SchoolCorvallis SD 509J34217.1
Lincoln Elementary SchoolCorvallis SD 509J31115.6
Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School · charterCorvallis SD 509J10711.9

57.4% 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 $1,370 takes 25% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 7.8 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
25.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
7.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,370
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$511,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income7.84Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate44.6%Bottom 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±42810,744Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$91$1,370Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$26,259$511,100Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.2%Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.6%Bottom 26%2024 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
86/ 100
Top 2% 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.

74% 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 10.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
606
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
10.1
Top 11% nationally
Year over year
+621%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
74.3%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Corvallis, 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 41.5 inches.

20°40°60°80°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station CORVALLIS 10 SSW, 3.8 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND8.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation41.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low34°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing26°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

48 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeElevated
Heat waveModerate
Inland floodingModerate

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

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.

Benton County records 3.2 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 15.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.3 per 100,000 residents in Benton County.

Homicide
3.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
11.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
23.5
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 Benton 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 97333 rather than 97333 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
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. 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.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 24 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mahlon Sweet FldEUG24 mi8,009 ft
Portland IntlPDX85 mi11,000 ft
Rogue Valley Intl/MedfordMFR146 mi8,800 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
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

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.

97333 vs Corvallis

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

97333
Corvallis
Median household income
$65,191
vs
$65,012
Per capita income
$40,616
vs
$40,092
Population density
214/sq mi
vs
4,127/sq mi
Median home value
$511,100
vs
$502,900
Median gross rent
$1,370
vs
$1,391
Homeownership rate
44.6%
vs
41.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher
59.2%
vs
61.4%
Poverty rate
25.7%
vs
24.3%
Median age
29.2
vs
27.9

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.