City · Jackson County, Oregon

Eagle Point, Oregon

Eagle Point is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, part of the Medford, OR metro area. It has 9,839 residents. Eagle Point, Oregon has a quality-of-life score of 41 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,297 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oregon it ranks #135 of 227 cities and towns. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), mental health providers (high) and preventable hospital stays (low). It ranks worst on unemployment rate (high), depression (high) and frequent mental distress (high).

41Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #9,297 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oregon: #135 of 227 in OR
Population: 9,839 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 3,314.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 4121550

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety22#12,177/15,637
Economy47#8,258/15,631
Housing41#8,886/14,977
Health31#10,750/15,609
Healthcare58#6,581/15,650
Environment21#12,260/15,453
Education19#12,724/15,649
Infrastructure81#2,932/15,650
Community62#6,005/15,651
Leisure & amenities75#3,880/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Eagle Point, Oregon ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Jackson 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.

Strengths

Distance to an airport · low7 mi
99/100Oregon 26 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauJackson County value
Mental health providers · high781 /100k
98/100Oregon 776 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJackson County value
Preventable hospital stays · low1,833 /100k
89/100Oregon 1,868 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJackson County value
Restaurants and bars · high11.7 /10k
87/100Oregon 12.4 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJackson County value
Public EV charging ports · high10.2 /10k
82/100Oregon 10.1 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyJackson County value
Primary care physicians · high96 /100k
81/100Oregon 95 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJackson County value

Weaknesses

Unemployment rate · high13.9%
4/100Oregon 5.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Depression · high29.4%
5/100Oregon 27.9%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Frequent mental distress · high21.5%
8/100Oregon 19.6%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Students per teacher · high18.8×
11/100Oregon 17.8×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsJackson County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Oregon 12.5United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationJackson County value
Property crime rate · high2,123 /100k
12/100Oregon 2,118 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationJackson County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationRising
9,154 (2015-2019) → 9,839 (2020-2024)
+7.5%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
55.9% (2015-2019) → 40.5% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
9.4 /1k (2021) → 2.4 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−74%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.1× (2015-2019) → 4.9× (2020-2024)
+56%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Unemployment rateWorsening
2.8% (2015-2019) → 13.9% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
82.6% (2015-2019) → 92.5% (2020-2024)
+9.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

What changed in five years

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.

Over about five years, Eagle Point, Oregon improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 moved within the margin of error and 1 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.

Improved1

Broadband+9.9 points82.6% → 92.5%

Declined1

Price / income+1.7×3.1× → 4.9×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Eagle Point, Oregon between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.2 min2015-2019	22.6 min2020-2024	−1.6 min	Within the margin of error	66%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.3%2015-2019	22.3%2020-2024	+5 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Broadband subscriptions	82.6%2015-2019	92.5%2020-2024	+9.9 points	Improved	59%
Effective property tax rate	1.17%2015-2019	0.79%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Little change	82%
High school diploma or higher	91.2%2015-2019	87.1%2020-2024	−4.2 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Home price to income ratio	3.1×2015-2019	4.9×2020-2024	+1.7×	Declined	6%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3852015-2019	0.3742020-2024	−0.011	Within the margin of error	60%
Median household income	$78,2352015-2019	$84,1262020-2024	+7.5%	Within the margin of error	14%
Poverty rate	9.8%2015-2019	10.0%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	31.9%2015-2019	27.2%2020-2024	−4.7 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Rent-burdened households	55.9%2015-2019	40.5%2020-2024	−15 points	Within the margin of error	90%

“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.

Cities and towns like Eagle Point, Oregon five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Eagle Point, 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.

For comparison, Eagle Point, Oregon itself moved +6.8 points in standing on average over the same 10 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.

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).

Age and sex

9,839 residents (±21)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

3,858 households (±360)

Eagle Point, Oregon
Oregon share

Under $25k11%†433
$25k–50k11%†412
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

3,858 households (±360)

Eagle Point, Oregon
Oregon share

Own74%2,870
Rent26%†988

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

3,797 workers (±447)

Eagle Point, Oregon
Oregon share

Drive alone86%3,255
Carpool3.5%†132
Public transit0.0%0

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.

Pay in the Medford, OR

Local businesses

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.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Jackson County, the county holding most of Eagle Point's residents.

Jackson County has 6,589 employer establishments, 298 for every 10,000 residents (1.20× the US rate of 248; 1.03× Oregon's), with 79,766 paid employees at an average annual pay of $54,506. The Census Bureau also counts 18,988 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,589; 18,988 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 298; US 248 · Oregon 288
Paid employees: 79,766
Average annual pay: $54,506; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Jackson County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	544	24.6	1.18×About typical	7,520	$77,110	1,128
Specialty trade contractors	514	23.2	1.50×More than typical	4,015	$64,719	961
Restaurants and other eating places	490	22.1	1.21×About typical	7,123	$24,544	89
Lessors of real estate	355	16	1.30×More than typical	929	$45,584	2,121
Construction of buildings	336	15.2	2.01×More than typical	1,401	$55,960	690
Services to buildings and dwellings	228	10.3	1.53×More than typical	1,238	$34,176	1,089
Full-service restaurants	207	9.4	1.22×About typical	3,136	$28,450	38
Offices of other health practitioners	198	8.9	1.47×More than typical	843	$51,849	678
Limited-service restaurants	184	8.3	1.04×About typical	2,748	$22,278	32
Building equipment contractors	163	7.4	1.22×About typical	1,911	$69,070	107
Offices of physicians	158	7.1	1.10×About typical	3,045	$104,920	188
Real estate agents and brokers	150	6.8	1.39×More than typical	226	$49,500	540

Rank places for an industry Open Jackson County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 221,276 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.

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: Eagle Point is mostly in Jackson County.

See federal money in Jackson County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Eagle Point, Oregon is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Cliff BentzR-OR-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 0.1%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Jackson County53100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Medford, OR64

Other cities and towns in Jackson County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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