Crook County, OR

County Profile

26,277 residents. Safety, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Crook County, OR.

Several figures AreaProfile publishes are measured by county and nowhere finer — death rates by intent among them. On this page those describe the geography they are printed on, which is not true of the city and ZIP pages that inherit them.

59out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 38% of 1,225 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity806th of 1,255 counties measured49
SchoolsTop 48% of 973 counties measured52
GrowthTop 1% of 1,226 counties measured89
Housing affordability1049th of 1,255 counties measured72
Climate813th of 1,254 counties measured63
Physical resilience694th of 1,255 counties measured57
Access1241st of 1,255 counties measured0
Economic stability639th of 1,255 counties measured61
The quick read

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 355 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 75% on the prior year.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 5.7 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 19% of it.

The nearest major airport is 141 miles away, which is farther than most measured US locations.

At a glance

Population
26,277
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$81,965
Top 16% nationally
Density
9/sq mi
2978.9 sq mi of land
Median age
47.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Crook County
Oregon
Metro area
Bend, OR
Nearest major airport
EUG
141 mi · Mahlon Sweet Fld
Median home value
$467,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.7% is lower than 9% of the 1,255 measured US locations.

Employment fell 0.3% over the past year, to 12,423 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$3,716$81,965Top 16%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,683$43,052Top 17%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate11.3%Bottom 34%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute28.1 minTop 33%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher21.3%Bottom 45%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Employment12,423Bottom 8%of 1,255June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.8%Top 31%of 1,255June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.3%Top 39%of 1,255June 2026
Labor force13,176Bottom 8%of 1,255June 2026
Labor force participation57.5%Bottom 44%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.5%Top 27%of 1,255June 2026
Unemployment rate5.7%Top 9%of 1,255June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/066.44.4
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 5.7% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202482k65k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $81,965 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 — Bend, OR
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers3,680$35,460
Retail Salespersons3,190$37,720
Registered Nurses2,500$135,010
Cashiers2,390$36,290
General and Operations Managers2,260$93,660
Office Clerks, General1,990$48,420

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.

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 39% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.7 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
7
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.7
across all schools here
Math proficiency
32.8%
Top 30% in Oregon
Reading proficiency
38.9%
Bottom 45% in Oregon
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Crook County High SchoolCrook County SD84220.5
Crook County Middle SchoolCrook County SD61615.427%
Barnes Butte ElementaryCrook County SD51014.235%
Steins Pillar ElementaryCrook County SD26715.7
Powell Butte Community Charter School · charterCrook County SD21216.350%50%
Pioneer Secondary Alternative High SchoolCrook County SD8922.3
Paulina SchoolCrook County SD2311.5

74.5% 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 $1,283 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.7 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
18.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,283
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$467,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income5.70Top 5%of 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate74.1%Bottom 47%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3111,800Bottom 48%of 3,2222024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$168$1,283Top 14%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,772$467,000Top 5%of 3,2192024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.8%Top 30%of 3,2162024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate8.6%Bottom 22%of 3,2222024 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
89/ 100
Top 1% of 1,226 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing, measured from 2022 to 2025.

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.

Population has grown 10% since 2020, reaching 27,336 in 2024.

Permitting has turned upward after moving the other way the year before.

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

62% 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 13.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US locations.

Units permitted
355
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
13.5
Top 3% nationally
Year over year
+75%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
62.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202427k25k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
2022202320242025414142
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2022 (+60%).

Weather & climate

4 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 25°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 8.5 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 24, in the Good band, and about 8 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station REDMOND ROBERTS FLD, 38.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND1.2"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index64.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation8.5"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low25°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high88°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months41991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10082024 calendar year
Median air quality index24.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing35°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
24
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
64
90th percentile index
Days above 100
8
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

57 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are wildfire, earthquake and hail.

WildfireHigh
AvalancheModerate
LandslideModerate
EarthquakeModerate
HailModerate
Heat waveModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA National Risk Index county record. 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.

Crook County records 4.2 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 14.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 17.7 per 100,000 residents in Crook County.

Homicide
4.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
17.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
20.7
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 Crook 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 Crook County rather than Crook County 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

No airport meeting the AreaProfile major-airport definition lies within 100 miles; the nearest is 141 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mahlon Sweet FldEUG141 mi8,009 ft
Portland IntlPDX147 mi11,000 ft
Rogue Valley Intl/MedfordMFR176 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
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.

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