West · Oregon · pop 635K
Portland, OR
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in OR, your $6,700/mo income nets about $4,943 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,496 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $899 left over.
Expect summer highs near 82°F, winter lows around 36°F, and about 144 sunny days a year.
There's plenty to do — roughly 36 restaurants, arts, and recreation spots per 10k residents.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (4.1% unemployment).
The Portland fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,044/mo
Typical rent
$1,760/mo
Home value ÷ income
6.6×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,620/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,760/mo
- Median home value
- $545,000
- Median household income
- $82,000
- Population
- 635,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.1%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.6%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 640
- Property crime rate
- 5,600
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 82°F
- Avg. winter low
- 36°F
- Sunny days / year
- 144
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈4/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈8/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈12/yr
- Annual rain
- 36"
- Annual snow
- 3"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+56
- Int'l airport
- ≈9 mi
- Walkability
- 67/100
- Disaster risk
- 66/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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