Micro area · Oregon

Coos Bay-North Bend, OR micropolitan area

Coos Bay-North Bend, OR is a micropolitan area of 1 county in Oregon, home to 63,992 residents. Coos Bay-North Bend, OR micropolitan area has a quality-of-life score of 53 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #436 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Oregon it ranks #14 of 20. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), dentists (high) and hot days (low). It ranks worst on firearm deaths (high), unemployment rate (high) and depression (high).

53Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#436 of 925 metro and micro areas
Oregon
#14 of 20 in OR
Population
63,992 (2025)
Land area
1,596 mi²
Density
40.1 /mi²
CBSA code
18300

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 63 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Coos Bay-North Bend, OR micropolitan area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety14#797/924
  • Economy19#749/925
  • Housing15#790/925
  • Health28#665/925
  • Healthcare72#257/923
  • Environment97#30/917
  • Education42#540/925
  • Infrastructure73#248/925
  • Community85#135/925
  • Leisure & amenities81#177/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Coos Bay-North Bend, OR micropolitan area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Coos Bay-North Bend, OR micropolitan area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Coos Bay-North Bend, OR micropolitan area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Coos Bay-North Bend, OR

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Coos CountyCentral county4963,992

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Coos BayPrincipal city15,925
  2. North BendPrincipal city10,171

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Coos Bay15,925
  2. North Bend10,171
  3. Coquille4,002
  4. Bandon3,330
  5. Myrtle Point2,684
  6. Lakeside1,870
  7. Barview1,684
  8. Bunker Hill1,626
  9. Saunders Lake1,338
  10. Glasgow697
  11. Powers613

Other metro and micro areas in Oregon

Areas based in Oregon, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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