City · Yamhill County, Oregon

Lafayette, Oregon

Lafayette is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. It has 4,490 residents. Lafayette, Oregon has a quality-of-life score of 61 out of 100 (high), ranking #6,089 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oregon it ranks #73 of 227 cities and towns. It ranks best on broadband subscriptions (high), uninsured residents (under 65) (low) and income inequality (Gini index) (low). It ranks worst on pharmacies (low), mental health care shortage (high) and rent as share of income (high).

61High

Quality-of-life score: #6,089 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oregon: #73 of 227 in OR
Population: 4,490 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 4,850.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 4140300

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety75#3,980/15,637
Economy58#6,585/15,631
Housing20#11,982/14,977
Health68#5,007/15,609
Healthcare51#7,734/15,650
Environment60#6,108/15,453
Education44#8,699/15,649
Infrastructure79#3,321/15,650
Community70#4,690/15,651
Leisure & amenities35#10,145/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Broadband subscriptions · high98.3%
96/100Oregon 92.4%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Uninsured residents (under 65) · low1.5%
94/100Oregon 6.6%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010High uncertainty
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.333
92/100Oregon 0.463United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Mental health providers · high521 /100k
89/100Oregon 776 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYamhill County value
Public EV charging ports · high10.4 /10k
83/100Oregon 10.1 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyYamhill County value
Physical inactivity · low18.6%
82/100Oregon 20.9%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.6 /10k
5/100Oregon 0.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsYamhill County value
Mental health care shortage · high18.0
11/100Oregon 12.5United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationYamhill County value
Rent as share of income · high36.0%
12/100Oregon 31.3%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Students per teacher · high17.7×
17/100Oregon 17.8×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsYamhill County value
Unemployment rate · high7.8%
18/100Oregon 5.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Rent-burdened households · high82.0%
18/100Oregon 52.5%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070

Trends

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

PopulationRising
4,149 (2015-2019) → 4,490 (2020-2024)
+8.2%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
48.7% (2015-2019) → 82.0% (2020-2024)
+33 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
79.3% (2015-2019) → 98.3% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.7% (2015-2019) → 36.0% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
8.8% (2015-2019) → 1.5% (2020-2024)
−7.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
13.7% (2015-2019) → 20.7% (2020-2024)
+6.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Lafayette, Oregon improved on 1 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 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.

Improved1

Broadband+19 points79.3% → 98.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of Lafayette, Oregon between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.4 min2015-2019	33.3 min2020-2024	+3.9 min	Within the margin of error	14%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.7%2015-2019	20.7%2020-2024	+6.9 points	Within the margin of error	79%
Broadband subscriptions	79.3%2015-2019	98.3%2020-2024	+19 points	Improved	89%
Effective property tax rate	0.96%2015-2019	0.80%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	51%
High school diploma or higher	82.1%2015-2019	86.7%2020-2024	+4.6 points	Within the margin of error	80%
Home price to income ratio	3.2×2015-2019	4.3×2020-2024	+1.0×	Within the margin of error	21%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3332015-2019	0.3332020-2024	−0.000	Within the margin of error	51%
Median household income	$76,3192015-2019	$97,7712020-2024	+28%	Within the margin of error	51%

“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 Lafayette, Oregon five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lafayette, 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, Lafayette, Oregon itself moved +6.5 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.

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

4,490 residents (±17)

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

1,450 households (±132)

Lafayette, Oregon
Oregon share

Under $25k6.1%†88
$25k–50k22%†319
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,450 households (±132)

Lafayette, Oregon
Oregon share

Own87%1,261
Rent13%†189

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

2,103 workers (±290)

Lafayette, Oregon
Oregon share

Drive alone74%1,559
Carpool16%†343
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 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 Yamhill County, the county holding most of Lafayette's residents.

Yamhill County has 2,760 employer establishments, 253 for every 10,000 residents (1.02× the US rate of 248; 0.88× Oregon's), with 32,438 paid employees at an average annual pay of $49,017. The Census Bureau also counts 7,412 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,760; 7,412 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 253; US 248 · Oregon 288
Paid employees: 32,438
Average annual pay: $49,017; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	240	22	1.42×More than typical	1,608	$67,773	326
Ambulatory health care services	188	17.3	0.83×About typical	1,467	$60,974	323
Restaurants and other eating places	185	17	0.92×About typical	2,762	$24,907	22
Construction of buildings	178	16.3	2.16×More than typical	629	$51,502	228
Lessors of real estate	129	11.8	0.96×About typical	364	$41,409	813
Services to buildings and dwellings	97	8.9	1.32×More than typical	517	$33,395	392
Full-service restaurants	89	8.2	1.06×About typical	1,101	$30,709	7
Offices of other health practitioners	84	7.7	1.27×More than typical	398	$45,555	181
Religious organizations	82	7.5	1.36×More than typical	582	$23,314	—
Building finishing contractors	65	6	1.57×More than typical	269	$45,398	103
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	64	5.9	1.86×More than typical	587	$62,230	38
Limited-service restaurants	63	5.8	0.72×Fewer than typical	1,254	$22,005	10

Rank places for an industry Open Yamhill County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 108,900 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Lafayette, Oregon: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

5.3KFY2019
-2.5KFY2020

What was bought

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 Lafayette, Oregon, so they do not add up across cities.

Lafayette, Oregon's figures are part of those of Yamhill County, OR ($21.6M 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: Lafayette is mostly in Yamhill County.

See federal money in Yamhill 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.

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

House

Andrea SalinasD-OR-6 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 0.3%

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.

Yamhill County67100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA80

Other cities and towns in Yamhill 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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