County · Oregon

Tillamook County, Oregon

Tillamook County, Oregon has a quality-of-life score of 62 out of 100 (high), ranking #1,180 of 3,143 US counties. Within Oregon it ranks #11 of 36 counties. It ranks best on public EV charging ports (high), restaurants and bars (high) and preventable hospital stays (low). It ranks worst on cost of buying a home today (high), home price to income ratio (high) and reading scores (low).

62High
Quality-of-life score
#1,180 of 3,143 counties
Oregon
#11 of 36 in OR
Population
27,384 (2025)
Land area
1,103 mi²
Density
24.8 /mi²
FIPS code
41057

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Location of Tillamook County, Oregon

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

  • Safety37#1,952/3,096
  • Economy41#1,847/3,143
  • Housing11#2,792/3,140
  • Health49#1,607/3,144
  • Healthcare67#1,023/3,143
  • Environment89#342/3,108
  • Education35#2,037/3,144
  • Infrastructure96#132/3,144
  • Community82#563/3,144
  • Leisure & amenities80#641/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Tillamook County, Oregon ranks highest and lowest among US counties (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.

Counties like Tillamook County, Oregon five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Tillamook County, 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.

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.

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.

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

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.

Cities and towns in Tillamook County

Places whose residents live mostly in Tillamook County, largest first.

  1. Tillamook5,218
  2. Bay City1,875
  3. Rockaway Beach1,562
  4. Pacific City1,303
  5. Bayside Gardens1,128
  6. Netarts1,022
  7. Garibaldi796
  8. Manzanita568
  9. Fairview526
  10. Pleasant Valley486
  11. Wheeler448
  12. Oceanside430
  13. Hebo311
  14. Neskowin290
  15. Beaver276
  16. Nehalem235
  17. Cape Meares225
  18. Neahkahnie219
  19. Barnesdale208
  20. Cloverdale143
  21. Idaville132

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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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