North Bend, Oregon

Area Profile

10,171 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for North Bend, in Coos County.

51out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 17% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2746th of 3,904 cities measured47
SchoolsTop 35% of 2,668 cities measured63
Growth2638th of 2,973 cities measured24
Housing affordabilityTop 43% of 4,223 cities measured85
Climate2188th of 4,223 cities measured70
Physical resilience3293rd of 4,182 cities measured26
Access4000th of 4,226 cities measured56
Economic stability2993rd of 4,226 cities measured48
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 5.7% and the Opportunity signal places North Bend in the bottom 30%.

Residential permitting has slowed: 8 units authorized over the past twelve months, 56% below the prior year.

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

At a glance

Population
10,171
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$81,320
Top 32% nationally
Density
2,587/sq mi
3.9 sq mi of land
Median age
43.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Coos County
Oregon
Metro area
Coos Bay-North Bend, OR
Nearest major airport
EUG
71 mi · Mahlon Sweet Fld
Median home value
$352,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.7% is lower than 11% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.2% over the past year, to 25,969 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$14,349$81,320Top 32%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$5,184$42,021Top 29%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate14.0%Top 39%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute15.7 minBottom 7%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher28.5%Top 33%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment25,969Bottom 33%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)-0.5%Bottom 44%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.2%Top 33%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force27,536Bottom 34%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation62.7%Top 43%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.1%Top 45%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate5.7%Top 11%of 3,904June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202481k58k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $81,320 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 publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Coos County, OR, which contains this city.

36% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 50% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 19.1 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
19.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
36.1%
Top 26% in Oregon
Reading proficiency
50.4%
Top 25% in Oregon
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
North Bend Senior High SchoolNorth Bend SD 1369019.7
North Bend Middle SchoolNorth Bend SD 1347720.727%
Hillcrest Elementary SchoolNorth Bend SD 1344918.747%57%
North Bay Elementary SchoolNorth Bend SD 1335216.835%42%

82.1% 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

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Median rent of $1,066 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.3 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
15.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.3×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,066
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$352,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income4.33Top 22%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate65.3%Bottom 29%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2494,643Top 12%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$51$1,066Top 42%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$13,267$352,300Top 22%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income15.7%Bottom 29%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate9.7%Bottom 49%of 32,0012024 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
24/ 100
Ranks 2638 of 2,973 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 fallen 3% since 2020, reaching 10,049 in 2024.

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

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.8 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
8
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.8
Bottom 27% nationally
Year over year
−56%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202410k10k
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
20222023202420251810
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2022 (+80%).

Weather & climate

4 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 66°F and January a low of 41°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 59.1 inches.

30°50°70°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station NORTH BEND RGNL AP, 0.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND10.5"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation59.1"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high66°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months41991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing14°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

26 / 100
Physical resilience

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

EarthquakeElevated
Coastal floodingElevated
Inland floodingElevated
AvalancheModerate

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

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. 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.

Coos County records 7.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 28.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 16.8 per 100,000 residents in Coos County.

Homicide
7.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
28.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
16.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
31.1
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 Coos 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 North Bend rather than North Bend 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 71 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mahlon Sweet FldEUG71 mi8,009 ft
Rogue Valley Intl/MedfordMFR99 mi8,800 ft
Portland IntlPDX171 mi11,000 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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Other cities in Coos Bay-North Bend, OR

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Coos BayCoos County15,92543vs North Bend

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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

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.

ZIP codes in North Bend

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
9745914,835$82,03549