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The Oregon Communities Reporter brings community data to community people in a flexible,
easy to understand way. Using the Oregon Communities Reporter, you can access demographic,
economic, social, and environmental information about the 723 towns, villages, and
cities and the 36 counties in Oregon. The Oregon Communities Reporter links all
of these communities to data gathered at the place, census tract, and county levels
by various agencies and institutions.
1. Click on the
tab.
2. Select either the county view or place view to set the type of community
to select. Places view is the default.
3. Enter your community of interest in step one in the search box
Hit enter or click the add button to put selected community in the Report Bin.
Alternately, use the Query Tool
on the map of Oregon to query and select a community for your report.
4. Your selected communities will be displayed in Report Bin step 2.
If you have selected more than one community for your report, you have the choice
of comparing the statistics for these communities or combining them to get “regional”
statistics.
5. Once you have selected one or more communities (either places or counties)
for your report, click
6. While viewing your report, you can change the communities of interest
at any time, either by re-entering the names at the top of the reporter, or by returning
to the ‘Select Communities’ tab and using the map.
The Oregon Communities Reporter is flexible. If you consider your community to be
two places – Astoria and Warrenton, for example - you can enter and select each
name, and then click the Combine button in step two:
If possible, data for both places will be combined in the final report. It is not possible,
however, to combine data for places of different geographic types (i.e. census tracts,
census designated places, and counties) or for places within the same census tract.
You will receive an error message if your selections do not meet these criteria.
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More informationThe Oregon Community Reporter is unique in that it combines different types of geography into one system. The 240 incorporated cities of Oregon, along with 69 other Census Bureau identified places, have data available at the place level. For 409 other unincorporated, rural places, the Reporter uses the census tract data for that area. This allows you to search and get data for any of 723 communities across the state. If you encounter an error message while trying to combine communities, it may be because the two place names selected are linked to the same census tract. Because census tracts cover a large area, especially in sparsely population areas, there is often more than one named place associated with a given census tract. Or the error may come from trying to combine census tract data with place data. Currently, the Reporter tool can only combine data within levels of geography (e.g., counties with counties, tracts with tracts, and places with places).
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About the Data
Much of the data displayed in the Oregon Community Reporter tool comes from the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. Census Bureau gathers data by place, census tract, and county at periodic intervals.
Other data comes from other federal and various state agencies and is generally only available at the county or (when applicable) school and school district level.
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