OREGON CITIES.

by Ted Peterson
The State of Oregon has 206 incorporated cities. The largest is Portland and the smallest one is Greenhorn. There has been talk about 7 cities that are west of Portland joining and if they do by the year 2010 they will be almost as large as Portland. Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard, Sherwood, Lake Oswego, and Tualatin. In 1999 the total population of these cities was over 250,000. One of them (Sherwood) is the fastest growing city of any city of the North West States. Between 1990 and 2000 it grew more then 250 %. The same thing would happen if some of the cities that are east of Portland, like Gresham, Oregon City, Troutdale, Wood Village, Fairview, Wood Village, etc. This group would be over 100,000. There are sets of cities that are next to each other that most people think are almost one city, like Salem and Keizer, Eugene and Springfield, Tigard and Beaverton, and Oregon City and West Linn. Tigard goes all the way around the city of King City and Portland goes all the way around Johnson City.
The populations listed here are what the state think the populations were by what the state think they were on July 1, 2000. The US population count for 2000 as posted.
The 21 largest cities in Oregon (all over 20,000 ) are listed below with the largest first and the 21st one last.
Portland - 536,240
Eugene - 140.550
Salem - 139,320
Gresham - 91,400
Beaverton - 77,170
Hillsboro - 73,200
Medford - 64,730
Bend - 55,080
Springfield - 53,450
Corvallis - 51,040
Tigard - 43,040
Albany - 41,650
Lake Oswego - 35,580
Keizer - 32,950
McMinnville - 27,500
Oregon City - 26,680
Grank Pass - 23,670
Tualatin - 23,270
West Linn - 23,090
Milwaukie - 20,550
Woodburn - 20,410
The 6 smallest incorporated cities in Oregon are listed below.
Prescott - 70
Antelope - 60
Shaniko - 30
Granite - 20
Lonerock - 20
Greenhorn - 0
The fastest growing cities in Oregon between 1990 and 1999 are listed below.
Sherwood - 9,855 - 218%
Fairview - 6,270 - 162%
Happy Valley - 3,965 - 161%
Bend - 50,650 - 147.7%
You will note that the top 3 cities are cities next to Portland.
There were only five cities that lost population. Below is the listing.
Myrtle Point - - .06%
Jordan Valley - - 6.6%
Ukiah - - 2%
Long Creek - - 5.6%
Prescott - - 4.8%
The Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area (including Salem) is now listed with a population of about 1,500,000 people. This includes the 5th largest city of Washington, (Vancouver), that join is up the north border of Portland. Vancouver has a population of over 250,000.
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