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Fairview (city), Oregon

Fairview is a city in Multnomah County, Oregon, part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. It has 10,735 residents. Fairview (city), Oregon has a quality-of-life score of 51 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #7,729 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oregon it ranks #96 of 227 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health providers (high), distance to an airport (low) and primary care physicians (high). It ranks worst on property crime rate (high), child care cost burden (high) and depression (high).

51Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #7,729 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oregon: #96 of 227 in OR
Population: 10,735 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 3,474.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 4124250

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.

Safety10#14,068/15,637
Economy40#9,399/15,631
Housing18#12,223/14,977
Health36#9,951/15,609
Healthcare86#2,261/15,650
Environment47#8,163/15,453
Education27#11,351/15,649
Infrastructure75#3,871/15,650
Community82#2,798/15,651
Leisure & amenities94#897/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Fairview (city), Oregon ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Multnomah 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

Mental health providers · high1,231 /100k
100/100Oregon 776 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMultnomah County value
Distance to an airport · low7 mi
99/100Oregon 26 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMultnomah County value
Primary care physicians · high154 /100k
99/100Oregon 95 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMultnomah County value
Distance to an emergency room · low2.1 mi
99/100Oregon 6.5 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMultnomah County value
Restaurants and bars · high19.1 /10k
98/100Oregon 12.4 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMultnomah County value
Access to exercise opportunities · high99.1%
96/100Oregon 88.0%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMultnomah County value

Weaknesses

Property crime rate · high4,510 /100k
0/100Oregon 2,118 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMultnomah County value
Child care cost burden · high46.3%
1/100Oregon 33.0%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMultnomah County value
Depression · high31.0%
2/100Oregon 27.9%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Drug overdose deaths · high41.5 /100k
3/100Oregon 19.7 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataMultnomah County value
Violent crime rate · high635 /100k
4/100Oregon 311 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationMultnomah County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
5/100Oregon 0.5 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesMultnomah County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
9,363 (2015-2019) → 10,735 (2020-2024)
+15%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
11.4% (2015-2019) → 30.6% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
4.9 /1k (2021) → 0.8 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−83%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
39.9% (2015-2019) → 51.4% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Poverty rateWorsening
6.9% (2015-2019) → 17.5% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
4.3× (2015-2019) → 6.1× (2020-2024)
+41%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Fairview (city), Oregon improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 9 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined2

Inequality+0.1060.356 → 0.462
Price / income+1.8×4.3× → 6.1×

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Fairview (city), Oregon between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.5 min2015-2019	22.7 min2020-2024	−5.8 min	Within the margin of error	93%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.7%2015-2019	24.0%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Within the margin of error	54%
Broadband subscriptions	86.8%2015-2019	86.5%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	7%
Effective property tax rate	1.08%2015-2019	0.92%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	50%
High school diploma or higher	85.8%2015-2019	86.0%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Home price to income ratio	4.3×2015-2019	6.1×2020-2024	+1.8×	Declined	6%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3562015-2019	0.4622020-2024	+0.106	Declined	4%
Median household income	$68,2592015-2019	$70,1072020-2024	+2.7%	Within the margin of error	9%
Rent as share of income	28.3%2015-2019	31.1%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Rent-burdened households	39.9%2015-2019	51.4%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	8.3%2015-2019	7.6%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	55%

“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 Fairview (city), Oregon five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Fairview (city), 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, Fairview (city), Oregon itself moved −15.1 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

10,735 residents (±25)

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

4,530 households (±407)

Fairview (city), Oregon
Oregon share

Under $25k13%†580
$25k–50k20%†923
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,530 households (±407)

Fairview (city), Oregon
Oregon share

Own43%1,930
Rent57%2,600

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−15.8 points).

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

5,757 workers (±519)

Fairview (city), Oregon
Oregon share

Drive alone64%3,703
Carpool13%†751
Public transit2.0%†117

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 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

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 Multnomah County, the county holding most of Fairview's residents.

Multnomah County has 27,204 employer establishments, 343 for every 10,000 residents (1.38× the US rate of 248; 1.19× Oregon's), with 442,844 paid employees at an average annual pay of $69,616. The Census Bureau also counts 79,426 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 27,204; 79,426 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 343; US 248 · Oregon 288
Paid employees: 442,844
Average annual pay: $69,616; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	2,385	30	1.64×More than typical	35,426	$29,643	376
Ambulatory health care services	2,126	26.8	1.29×More than typical	23,776	$72,709	5,400
Lessors of real estate	1,601	20.2	1.64×More than typical	9,574	$63,201	6,663
Full-service restaurants	1,135	14.3	1.86×More than typical	17,545	$32,790	129
Specialty trade contractors	1,025	12.9	0.83×About typical	17,307	$92,565	2,313
Offices of other health practitioners	975	12.3	2.02×More than typical	4,419	$48,842	3,553
Management, scientific and technical consulting	943	11.9	1.77×More than typical	6,384	$93,092	4,323
Construction of buildings	879	11.1	1.46×More than typical	7,826	$98,729	1,670
Limited-service restaurants	817	10.3	1.28×More than typical	12,581	$26,652	188
Legal services	796	10	1.86×More than typical	6,447	$117,249	813
Services to buildings and dwellings	547	6.9	1.02×About typical	4,825	$37,659	2,565
Real estate agents and brokers	536	6.8	1.39×More than typical	1,397	$82,535	1,523

Rank places for an industry Open Multnomah County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 793,778 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

In FY2026, an estimated $227.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Fairview (city), Oregon: $21.18 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $227.4K
Per resident: $21.18; US $1,994
Sole-source: 72%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center$163.9K72%
Department of the Navy$63.6K28%

Top recipients

GENERAL PACIFIC, INC$227.5K100%
ACCESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CORPORATION-$1610.0%

Spending by fiscal year

6KFY2017
-416.6FY2018
150KFY2019
199.3KFY2020
196.4KFY2021
178.4KFY2022
193.3KFY2023
3MFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Household appliances and electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers · 4236$163.9K72%
Communications equipment manufacturing · 3342$63.6K28%

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Fairview (city), Oregon

DJI SUPPLIES REQUIRED FOR CYD SUAS/C-UAS TRAINING PROGRAM COURSE$183.1K
GENERAL PACIFIC, INC· Multnomah County, OR· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 26, 2026 – Jun 28, 2026· 70LGLY26PSSB00014
UAV PARTS AND ACCESSORIES.$71.1K
GENERAL PACIFIC, INC· Multnomah County, OR· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 23, 2026 – Mar 23, 2026· N6600126P6083
NMFS WCR PORTLAND, OR RECORDS STORAGE SERVICES FOR 1 YEAR.$5,786
ACCESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CORPORATION· Multnomah County, OR· Transportation & logistics· Aug 29, 2022 – Apr 23, 2026· 1333MF22PNFFO0189

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Fairview (city), Oregon, so they do not add up across cities.

Fairview (city), Oregon's figures are part of those of Multnomah County, OR ($966M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Fairview is mostly in Multnomah County.

See federal money in Multnomah 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.

Fairview (city), Oregon is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

Jeff MerkleyD-

County

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

Multnomah County68100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA80

Other cities and towns in Multnomah 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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