97365Newport, Oregon

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 97365.

49out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 12% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity5216th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured37
GrowthTop 8% of 5,428 ZIP areas measured76
Housing affordability5573rd of 6,685 ZIP areas measured55
Climate3417th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured70
Physical resilience5515th of 6,709 ZIP areas measured23
Access6180th of 6,791 ZIP areas measured66
Economic stability6341st of 6,742 ZIP areas measured27
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.9% and the Opportunity signal places 97365 in the bottom 16%.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 107 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 346% on the prior year.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by earthquake, inland flooding and tsunami.

At a glance

Population
11,066
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$64,363
Bottom 38% nationally
Density
267/sq mi
41.5 sq mi of land
Median age
51.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Newport
Oregon
Metro area
Newport, OR
Nearest major airport
EUG
55 mi · Mahlon Sweet Fld
Median home value
$441,700
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.9% is lower than 9% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.9% over the past year, to 20,279 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$8,449$64,363Bottom 38%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,152$40,131Top 39%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate16.3%Top 27%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute17.4 minBottom 7%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher31.4%Top 32%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment20,279Bottom 19%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.3%Bottom 45%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.9%Bottom 47%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force21,555Bottom 20%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation50.2%Bottom 20%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.2%Top 43%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate5.9%Top 9%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202464k53k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $64,363 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.

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

There are 18.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
18.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Newport High SchoolLincoln County SD66921.6
Newport Middle SchoolLincoln County SD42620.3
Sam Case ElementaryLincoln County SD35316.0
Yaquina View ElementaryLincoln County SD26414.7

90.5% 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 $1,255 takes 23% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 6.9 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
23.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
6.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,255
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$441,700
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income6.86Top 7%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate60.4%Bottom 16%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3086,196Top 24%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$93$1,255Top 33%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$25,610$441,700Top 17%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.4%Top 20%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate15.7%Top 36%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
76/ 100
Top 8% 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.

85% 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
107
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
10.1
Top 11% nationally
Year over year
+346%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
85.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

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

Weather & climate

4 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 64°F and January a low of 39°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 67.3 inches.

30°50°70°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NEWPORT, 2.3 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND11.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation67.3"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low39°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high64°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months41991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing13°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

23 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeHigh
Inland floodingElevated
TsunamiModerate
Coastal floodingModerate
AvalancheModerate

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

Lincoln 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 23.6 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 15.2 per 100,000 residents in Lincoln County.

Homicide
4.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
23.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
15.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
29.5
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 Lincoln 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 97365 rather than 97365 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 55 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mahlon Sweet FldEUG55 mi8,009 ft
Portland IntlPDX94 mi11,000 ft
Rogue Valley Intl/MedfordMFR169 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
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.

97365 vs Newport

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

97365
Newport
Median household income
$64,363
vs
$60,568
Per capita income
$40,131
vs
$40,088
Population density
267/sq mi
vs
1,061/sq mi
Median home value
$441,700
vs
$441,400
Median gross rent
$1,255
vs
$1,241
Homeownership rate
60.4%
vs
58.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher
31.4%
vs
31.3%
Poverty rate
16.3%
vs
16.2%
Median age
51.5
vs
51.3

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.