City · Yamhill County, Oregon

Yamhill, Oregon

Yamhill is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, part of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. It has 1,273 residents. Yamhill, Oregon has a quality-of-life score of 62 out of 100 (high), ranking #5,886 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oregon it ranks #72 of 227 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health providers (high), unemployment rate (low) and median household income (high). It ranks worst on pharmacies (low), mental health care shortage (high) and depression (high).

62High

Quality-of-life score: #5,886 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oregon: #72 of 227 in OR
Population: 1,273 (2020-2024)
Land area: 0 mi²
Density: 2,612.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 4184250

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 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
Economy71#4,609/15,631
Housing21#11,788/14,977
Health64#5,630/15,609
Healthcare43#8,976/15,650
Environment60#6,108/15,453
Education52#7,573/15,649
Infrastructure77#3,577/15,650
Community70#4,690/15,651
Leisure & amenities35#10,145/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Yamhill, 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

Mental health providers · high521 /100k
89/100Oregon 776 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYamhill County value
Unemployment rate · low1.4%
89/100Oregon 5.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Median household income · high$113,750
84/100Oregon $84,897United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Physical inactivity · low18.2%
83/100Oregon 20.9%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Public EV charging ports · high10.4 /10k
83/100Oregon 10.1 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyYamhill County value
Broadband subscriptions · high95.0%
81/100Oregon 92.4%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002

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
Depression · high26.8%
16/100Oregon 27.9%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Students per teacher · high17.7×
17/100Oregon 17.8×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsYamhill County value
Dental care shortage · high16.0
18/100Oregon 9.4United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationYamhill County value
Mammography screening · low41.0%
23/100Oregon 43.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteYamhill County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,346 (2015-2019) → 1,273 (2020-2024)
−5.4%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
32.5% (2015-2019) → 54.3% (2020-2024)
+22 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
25.7% (2015-2019) → 37.5% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
6.1% (2015-2019) → 16.4% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$83,393 (2015-2019) → $113,750 (2020-2024)
+36%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
88.8% (2015-2019) → 95.0% (2020-2024)
+6.2 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, Yamhill, 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

Household income+36%$83,393 → $113,750

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of Yamhill, Oregon between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	30.5 min2015-2019	34.9 min2020-2024	+4.4 min	Within the margin of error	12%
Bachelor's degree or higher	18.0%2015-2019	24.2%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Broadband subscriptions	88.8%2015-2019	95.0%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Effective property tax rate	0.93%2015-2019	0.82%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	38%
High school diploma or higher	92.6%2015-2019	97.4%2020-2024	+4.8 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Home price to income ratio	3.3×2015-2019	4.2×2020-2024	+0.9×	Within the margin of error	27%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3832015-2019	0.3972020-2024	+0.014	Within the margin of error	38%
Median household income	$83,3932015-2019	$113,7502020-2024	+36%	Improved	68%

“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 Yamhill, Oregon five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Yamhill, 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, Yamhill, Oregon itself moved +1.2 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

1,273 residents (±341)

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

460 households (±95)

Yamhill, Oregon
Oregon share

Under $25k12%†55
$25k–50k13%†62
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

460 households (±95)

Yamhill, Oregon
Oregon share

Own87%400
Rent13%†60

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

618 workers (±166)

Yamhill, Oregon
Oregon share

Drive alone82%504
Carpool6.5%†40
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 Yamhill'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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Yamhill 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.

Yamhill, 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
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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