97222Milwaukie, Oregon

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 97222.

52out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 22% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity4165th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured47
Schools4057th of 4,422 ZIP areas measured18
Growth3089th of 5,428 ZIP areas measured46
Housing affordability5233rd of 6,685 ZIP areas measured59
ClimateTop 23% of 6,789 ZIP areas measured78
Physical resilience4052nd of 6,709 ZIP areas measured48
AccessTop 44% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured94
Economic stabilityTop 34% of 6,742 ZIP areas measured68
The quick read

Unemployment is 5.0% and median household income $83,119, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Residential permitting has slowed: 105 units authorized over the past twelve months, 17% below the prior year.

A major airport is 10 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
36,398
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$83,119
Top 34% nationally
Density
4,208/sq mi
8.7 sq mi of land
Median age
41.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Milwaukie
Oregon
Metro area
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
Nearest major airport
PDX
10 mi · Portland Intl
Median home value
$490,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

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

Employment fell 0.9% over the past year, to 213,591 employed residents.

39% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 79% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$6,672$83,119Top 34%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,865$48,282Top 22%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate9.2%Bottom 43%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.8 minTop 50%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher39.5%Top 21%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment213,591Top 22%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-1.3%Bottom 28%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 47%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force224,846Top 22%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation68.4%Top 20%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)0.1%Top 48%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate5.0%Top 28%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202483k68k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $83,119 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 Milwaukie, OR, the city containing this ZIP code.

19% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 21% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.4 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
18.8%
Bottom 27% in Oregon
Reading proficiency
21.3%
Bottom 1% in Oregon
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Milwaukie High SchoolNorth Clackamas SD 1287417.1
Rowe Middle SchoolNorth Clackamas SD 1274718.78%
Whitcomb Elementary SchoolNorth Clackamas SD 1241516.610%10%
Milwaukie El Puente Elementary SchoolNorth Clackamas SD 1240817.035%15%
Ardenwald Elementary SchoolNorth Clackamas SD 1239616.525%30%
Lewelling Elementary SchoolNorth Clackamas SD 1228218.830%30%
Milwaukie Academy of the Arts · charterNorth Clackamas SD 12281
Oak Grove ElementaryNorth Clackamas SD 1226217.510%30%
Linwood Elementary SchoolNorth Clackamas SD 1225916.210%10%
Cascade Heights Public Charter School · charterNorth Clackamas SD 1222816.341%30%
Sojourner SchoolNorth Clackamas SD 1215922.7

63.5% 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 $1,641 takes 24% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.9 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
23.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,641
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$490,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income5.91Top 10%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate56.3%Bottom 13%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±66117,054Top 6%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$47$1,641Top 18%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$13,141$490,900Top 13%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.7%Top 19%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate6.6%Bottom 31%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
46/ 100
Ranks 3089 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.

At 4.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
105
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
4.9
Top 31% nationally
Year over year
−17%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
42.9%
units in 5+ unit buildings

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

Weather & climate

6 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 36°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 36.9 inches, including 4.2 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 30, in the Good band, and about 6 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station PORTLAND INTL AP, 10.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index51.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation36.9"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall4.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low36°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10062024 calendar year
Median air quality index30.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing29°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
30
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
51
90th percentile index
Days above 100
6
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

48 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeHigh
Volcanic activityModerate
Heat waveElevated
Strong windModerate

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

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.

Clackamas 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 14.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 15.6 per 100,000 residents in Clackamas County.

Homicide
2.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
15.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
21.7
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 Clackamas 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 97222 rather than 97222 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 10 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Portland IntlPDX10 mi11,000 ft
Mahlon Sweet FldEUG95 mi8,009 ft
Seattle-Tacoma IntlSEA140 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.

97222 vs Milwaukie

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

97222
Milwaukie
Median household income
$83,119
vs
$86,892
Per capita income
$48,282
vs
$52,715
Population density
4,208/sq mi
vs
4,287/sq mi
Median home value
$490,900
vs
$505,100
Median gross rent
$1,641
vs
$1,598
Homeownership rate
56.3%
vs
60.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher
39.5%
vs
41.5%
Poverty rate
9.2%
vs
7.9%
Median age
41.0
vs
41.3

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.