All Counties in Oregon, Eviction Risk 2026
36 counties covering 425 incorporated cities and 3,474,865 residents. Statewide average landlord risk score is 6.4/10 (Elevated), but county-level scores vary sharply, urban counties with strong tenant protections or high rent burdens routinely score several points above rural counties.
| County↕ | Population↕ | Risk↕ | Lean↕ | Renters↕ | % income on rent↕ | Avg rent↕ | Poverty↕ | Cities↕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Hood River County | 14,240 | 7.0 | Dem | 41.7% | 35.1% | $1,254 | 22.8% | 8 |
| 02 | Benton County | 70,319 | 7.0 | Dem | 31.5% | 34.5% | $1,472 | 14.0% | 12 |
| 03 | Multnomah County | 780,644 | 7.0 | Dem | 27.9% | 28.7% | $1,926 | 9.7% | 10 |
| 04 | Clackamas County | 303,686 | 6.9 | Dem | 25.1% | 34.7% | $1,700 | 8.9% | 22 |
| 05 | Washington County | 543,641 | 6.9 | Dem | 31.8% | 31.4% | $1,788 | 7.9% | 27 |
| 06 | Lane County | 312,040 | 6.9 | Dem | 27.6% | 32.6% | $1,330 | 15.5% | 22 |
| 07 | Lincoln County | 36,272 | 6.7 | Dem | 26.3% | 29.1% | $1,134 | 14.1% | 12 |
| 08 | Clatsop County | 29,267 | 6.6 | Dem | 30.2% | 31.5% | $1,212 | 14.3% | 9 |
| 09 | Yamhill County | 84,402 | 6.6 | IND | 24.9% | 34.7% | $1,549 | 10.8% | 11 |
| 10 | Jackson County | 172,154 | 6.6 | IND | 30.2% | 38.0% | $1,291 | 15.6% | 17 |
| 11 | Marion County | 328,967 | 6.5 | IND | 26.1% | 30.0% | $1,461 | 12.1% | 24 |
| 12 | Linn County | 104,204 | 6.5 | Rep | 23.3% | 30.8% | $1,335 | 13.5% | 18 |
| 13 | Polk County | 44,374 | 6.5 | IND | 42.3% | 36.3% | $1,252 | 15.8% | 10 |
| 14 | Deschutes County | 163,398 | 6.5 | Dem | 23.8% | 33.7% | $1,691 | 8.4% | 16 |
| 15 | Tillamook County | 27,610 | 6.4 | IND | 34.6% | 28.6% | $1,341 | 14.4% | 21 |
| 16 | Columbia County | 33,856 | 6.3 | Rep | 23.0% | 36.9% | $1,336 | 9.5% | 10 |
| 17 | Wasco County | 19,119 | 6.3 | IND | 30.3% | 31.7% | $1,075 | 12.9% | 9 |
| 18 | Coos County | 44,616 | 6.3 | Rep | 30.3% | 31.5% | $1,049 | 18.7% | 14 |
| 19 | Josephine County | 50,140 | 6.3 | Rep | 21.0% | 38.6% | $1,155 | 17.8% | 10 |
| 20 | Douglas County | 74,116 | 6.3 | Rep | 24.5% | 31.5% | $1,022 | 18.9% | 21 |
| 21 | Curry County | 13,352 | 6.2 | Rep | 28.6% | 31.9% | $1,133 | 10.9% | 7 |
| 22 | Jefferson County | 19,324 | 6.2 | Rep | 27.6% | 26.7% | $1,320 | 12.2% | 7 |
| 23 | Crook County | 15,633 | 6.1 | Rep | 21.3% | 48.3% | $1,019 | 10.2% | 3 |
| 24 | Umatilla County | 61,673 | 6.0 | Rep | 27.6% | 25.9% | $960 | 13.8% | 22 |
| 25 | Klamath County | 49,511 | 6.0 | Rep | 28.4% | 33.2% | $1,027 | 21.6% | 18 |
| 26 | Union County | 19,644 | 6.0 | Rep | 28.4% | 30.1% | $990 | 23.5% | 9 |
| 27 | Baker County | 12,269 | 6.0 | Rep | 30.1% | 27.9% | $817 | 20.1% | 9 |
| 28 | Wallowa County | 4,178 | 5.9 | Rep | 29.2% | 29.3% | $985 | 11.1% | 5 |
| 29 | Gilliam County | 1,313 | 5.9 | Rep | 20.9% | 33.2% | $1,099 | 15.6% | 2 |
| 30 | Morrow County | 8,000 | 5.8 | Rep | 27.7% | 23.1% | $957 | 12.0% | 5 |
| 31 | Malheur County | 18,146 | 5.8 | Rep | 34.1% | 17.2% | $805 | 15.2% | 7 |
| 32 | Grant County | 4,191 | 5.8 | Rep | 24.1% | 26.6% | $812 | 18.0% | 9 |
| 33 | Wheeler County | 787 | 5.8 | Rep | 28.0% | 28.5% | $811 | 9.3% | 4 |
| 34 | Sherman County | 1,407 | 5.6 | Rep | 30.0% | 20.9% | $870 | 21.9% | 7 |
| 35 | Harney County | 4,463 | 5.5 | Rep | 37.9% | 23.4% | $555 | 15.8% | 3 |
| 36 | Lake County | 3,909 | 5.5 | Rep | 46.8% | 32.3% | $776 | 11.9% | 5 |
Understanding county eviction risk in Oregon
Oregon's 36 counties span eviction-risk scores from 5.5 in Lake County to 7.0 in Hood River County , a 1.5-point gap that captures how unevenly rent burdens, renter populations, and local tenant politics are distributed across the state. The statewide average sits at 6.4/10 (Elevated), but that single figure hides far more than it reveals, the table above scores every county on the same 1–10 scale so you can see exactly where landlord exposure concentrates.
The counties carrying the most eviction risk, Hood River County, Benton County, Multnomah County, are Oregon's denser, higher-cost markets. In Crook County, renters spend an average of 48% of household income on rent, and 21% of its homes are renter-occupied, the cost pressure that pushes filings up and pulls tenant-protection ordinances into local politics. Larger metros also concentrate the legal-aid networks and renter-organizing capacity that lift a county's score above the rural baseline.
At the other end of the table, Lake County, Harney County, Sherman County score lowest. These tend to be smaller, more rural counties where homeownership is the norm, rent-to-income ratios run lower, and local rent-control or just-cause ordinances are rare or state-preempted. Evictions still happen there, but the structural pressure that drives a high score (heavy rent burden, a large renter majority, organized tenant advocacy) is simply weaker.
Each county score is a population-weighted aggregate of every city scored inside it, so a county with one expensive urban core and a dozen quiet suburbs lands somewhere in between. Click any county row to drill into its cities ranked one by one, a zoomed heat map, and a full breakdown of rent burden, renter share, poverty rate, and political margin. For the statutes that apply statewide regardless of county, notice periods, security-deposit caps, just-cause and rent-control rules, see the Oregon state overview.