Barview is a census-designated place in Coos County, Oregon, part of the Coos Bay-North Bend, OR metro area. It has 1,684 residents. Barview, Oregon has a quality-of-life score of 42 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,111 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oregon it ranks #128 of 227 cities and towns. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), hot days (low) and mental health providers (high). It ranks worst on firearm deaths (high), suicide rate (high) and hospital quality rating (low).
42Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#9,111 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oregon
#128 of 227 in OR
Population
1,684 (2020-2024)
Land area
1 mi²
Density
1,218.2 /mi²
FIPS code
4104400
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety9#14,253/15,637
Economy45#8,625/15,631
Housing29#10,632/14,977
Health28#11,232/15,609
Healthcare43#8,955/15,650
Environment84#2,518/15,453
Education17#12,961/15,649
Infrastructure68#4,955/15,650
Community65#5,420/15,651
Leisure & amenities75#3,908/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Barview, Oregon ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Coos County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.
How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.
Cities and towns like Barview, Oregon five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Barview, Oregon in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.
Who lives here
Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
Jobs and pay
What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.
Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.
Federal contracts performed here
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Barview is mostly in Coos County.
Over about five years, Barview, Oregon improved on 2 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 6 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.
Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing
Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.
Improved2
Broadband+25 points70.7% → 95.5%
Broadband subscriptions
70.7% → 95.5%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+25 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±24.1 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 17 → 80 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 95% of cities and towns
Household income+69%$46,364 → $78,510
Median household income
$46,364 → $78,5102015-2019 → 2020-2024
+69%Beyond the margin of error (±$16,659)
Standing among cities and towns: 31 → 57 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 94% of cities and towns
Declined1
Inequality+0.1370.319 → 0.456
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.319 → 0.4562015-2019 → 2020-2024
+0.137Beyond the margin of error (±0.116)
Standing among cities and towns: 97 → 28 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 98% of cities and towns
All 9 measures
Change of every measure of Barview, Oregon between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
14.5 min2015-2019
20.1 min2020-2024
+5.5 min
Within the margin of error
8%
Bachelor's degree or higher
13.8%2015-2019
14.5%2020-2024
+0.7 points
Within the margin of error
32%
Broadband subscriptions
70.7%2015-2019
95.5%2020-2024
+25 points
Improved
95%
Effective property tax rate
0.73%2015-2019
0.78%2020-2024
+0 points
Within the margin of error
11%
High school diploma or higher
88.9%2015-2019
86.0%2020-2024
−3 points
Within the margin of error
11%
Home price to income ratio
3.1×2015-2019
3.1×2020-2024
+0.1×
Within the margin of error
75%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.3192015-2019
0.4562020-2024
+0.137
Declined
2%
Median household income
$46,3642015-2019
$78,5102020-2024
+69%
Improved
94%
Public transit commuters
0.0%2015-2019
0.0%2020-2024
0 points
Within the margin of error
60%
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.
Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.
For comparison, Barview, Oregon itself moved −2.6 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).
How the ranking works
Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.
Barview, Oregon is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Coos County, the county holding most of Barview's residents.
Coos County has 1,627 employer establishments, 252 for every 10,000 residents (1.01× the US rate of 248; 0.87× Oregon's), with 19,515 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,842. The Census Bureau also counts 3,985 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
1,627
3,985 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
252
US 248 · Oregon 288
Paid employees
19,515
Average annual pay
$46,842
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Coos County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 64,578 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.
