Scores by category

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

Safety32#10,575/15,637
Economy27#11,362/15,631
Housing42#8,660/14,977
Health32#10,653/15,609
Healthcare51#7,745/15,650
Environment94#922/15,453
Education16#13,138/15,649
Infrastructure62#5,986/15,650
Community75#3,844/15,651
Leisure & amenities73#4,170/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Restaurants and bars · high20.5 /10k
98/100Oregon 12.4 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTillamook County value
Public EV charging ports · high26.7 /10k
98/100Oregon 10.1 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyTillamook County value
Preventable hospital stays · low1,336 /100k
98/100Oregon 1,868 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTillamook County value
Grocery stores · high3.7 /10k
97/100Oregon 1.6 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTillamook County value
Hot days · low1 days
96/100Oregon 16 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationTillamook County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.2 µg/m³
95/100Oregon 8.4 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyTillamook County value

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Oregon 0.9 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTillamook County value
Flu vaccinations · low21.0%
1/100Oregon 39.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTillamook County value
Reading scores · low2.50
2/100Oregon 2.96United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTillamook County value
Traffic deaths · high41.4 /100k
3/100Oregon 13.3 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataTillamook County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Oregon 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTillamook County value
Math scores · low2.53
5/100Oregon 2.85United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTillamook County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,166 (2015-2019) → 1,562 (2020-2024)
+34%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateImproving
35.2% (2015-2019) → 3.3% (2020-2024)
−32 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
65.8% (2015-2019) → 34.0% (2020-2024)
−32 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
46.1% (2015-2019) → 24.9% (2020-2024)
−21 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
11.9% (2015-2019) → 1.5% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
90.6% (2015-2019) → 80.4% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Rockaway Beach, Oregon improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 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.

Improved2

Rent / income−21 points46.1% → 24.9%
Rent burden−32 points65.8% → 34.0%

Declined3

High school+−10 points90.6% → 80.4%
Inequality+0.1630.384 → 0.547
Price / income+1.9×4.5× → 6.4×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Rockaway Beach, Oregon between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	24.0 min2015-2019	17.9 min2020-2024	−6.1 min	Within the margin of error	93%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.6%2015-2019	27.1%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Broadband subscriptions	82.8%2015-2019	90.4%2020-2024	+7.6 points	Within the margin of error	47%
Effective property tax rate	0.61%2015-2019	0.52%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
High school diploma or higher	90.6%2015-2019	80.4%2020-2024	−10 points	Declined	1%
Home price to income ratio	4.5×2015-2019	6.4×2020-2024	+1.9×	Declined	5%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3842015-2019	0.5472020-2024	+0.163	Declined	1%
Median household income	$45,7812015-2019	$53,8722020-2024	+18%	Within the margin of error	28%
Poverty rate	17.4%2015-2019	11.3%2020-2024	−6.1 points	Within the margin of error	84%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	46.1%2015-2019	24.9%2020-2024	−21 points	Improved	99%
Rent-burdened households	65.8%2015-2019	34.0%2020-2024	−32 points	Improved	98%

“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 Rockaway Beach, Oregon five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Rockaway Beach, 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, Rockaway Beach, Oregon itself moved +4.7 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

1,562 residents (±255)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 60–69 women (−6.0 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,562 residents (±255)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

White90%1,404
Black3.2%†50
Hispanic or Latino2.6%†40
Asian1.2%†19
American Indian and Alaska Native0.3%†5
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0.0%0
Other or two or more races2.8%†44

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: White (−7.1 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B03002View table on data.census.gov

Education

1,249 residents (±186)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

No high school diploma20%†245
High school or GED23%291
Some college22%279
Associate degree7.7%†96
Bachelor's degree21%†258
Graduate degree6.4%†80

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B15003View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

789 households (±116)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

Under $25k22%†176
$25k–50k24%†192
$50k–75k22%†172
$75k–100k11%†88
$100k–150k6.5%†51
$150k–200k5.2%†41
$200k or more8.7%†69

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $200k or more (+7.6 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

789 households (±116)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

Own77%611
Rent23%178

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

153 households (±53)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

Under $75013%†20
$750–1,00042%†64
$1,000–1,50013%†20

Home values

611 homes (±106)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

Under $150k14%†88
$150k–250k12%†72
$250k–400k37%†224

Age of homes

1,907 homes (±182)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

2010 or later5.3%†101
2000–200919%356
1980–199928%531

Size of homes

1,907 homes (±182)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

Studio2.0%†38
1 bedroom12%†220
2 bedrooms39%735

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

608 workers (±154)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

Drive alone66%†403
Carpool5.3%†32
Public transit0.0%0
Walk2.6%†16
Bike0.0%0
Work from home26%†157
Other0.0%0

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

451 workers (±131)

Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Oregon share

Under 15 min48%†215
15–29 min37%†167
30–44 min12%†55

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Tillamook County, the county holding most of Rockaway Beach's residents.

Tillamook County has 769 employer establishments, 280 for every 10,000 residents (1.13× the US rate of 248; 0.97× Oregon's), with 8,076 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,273. The Census Bureau also counts 2,303 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 769; 2,303 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 280; US 248 · Oregon 288
Paid employees: 8,076
Average annual pay: $52,273; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	87	31.7	1.73×More than typical	769	$28,858	18
Lessors of real estate	52	18.9	1.54×More than typical	224	$36,750	294
Full-service restaurants	50	18.2	2.37×More than typical	510	$31,018	4
Specialty trade contractors	49	17.8	1.15×About typical	256	$69,188	139
Construction of buildings	48	17.5	2.31×More than typical	218	$78,748	127
Traveler accommodation	28	10.2	5.65×More than typical	282	$32,755	24
Ambulatory health care services	26	9.5	0.45×Fewer than typical	263	$61,692	64
Religious organizations	26	9.5	1.71×More than typical	115	$29,957	—
Real estate agents and brokers	20	7.3	1.50×More than typical	36	$48,917	104
Limited-service restaurants	19	6.9	0.86×About typical	126	$28,738	12
Truck transportation	19	6.9	1.37×More than typical	285	$45,481	36
Services to buildings and dwellings	18	6.6	0.97×About typical	69	$34,797	209

Rank places for an industry Open Tillamook County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 27,459 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 $206.2K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Rockaway Beach, Oregon: $132 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $206.2K
Per resident: $132; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; 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

Department of the Army$206.2K100%

Top recipients

TRADE WEST CONSTRUCTION, INC$206.2K100%

Spending by fiscal year

993.7FY2019
653.3FY2020
734.7KFY2021
4.7MFY2022
-433.9KFY2023
6.9KFY2024
-4.9KFY2025
206.2KFY2026

Top industries (NAICS)

Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$206.2K100%

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 Rockaway Beach, Oregon, so they do not add up across cities.

Rockaway Beach, Oregon's figures are part of those of Tillamook County, OR ($2.7M in FY2026), never added to them: 7.6% of that total.

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

See federal money in Tillamook 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.

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

House

Suzanne BonamiciD-OR-1 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 1.2%

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.

Tillamook County62100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Tillamook 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
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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