OatfieldOR
A town of 13,294.
Is Oatfield a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Oatfield grades B overall, 33rd among Oregon's 142 graded towns. The catch is cost: the typical home is worth about $569K, 5.8 years of the Portland metro’s $97K median household income. 29% of residents are 65 or older in Oatfield, against 18% in Oregon’s towns and 18% across U.S. towns. Oatfield is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 84% of U.S. towns. John and Elizabeth Kinsman House is on the National Register of Historic Places.
What makes Oatfield stand out
Where Oatfield beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Bilquist Elementary School | K–5 | 373 |
| Micha-El School | K–7 | 66 |
| Alder Creek Middle School | 6–8 | 810 |
98% of working residents leave Oatfield for work
Where Oatfield’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Oatfield grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Oregon), ordered by how far Oatfield is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moda Center and 169 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Oatfield. Close and well known come first.
9 mi Stadium & arenaModa Center
9 mi Stadium & arenaProvidence Park
26 mi WaterfallMultnomah Falls
4 mi WaterfallWillamette Falls
10 mi MuseumPittock Mansion
12 mi City parkForest ParkPhoto credits
Moda Center: Lugnuts, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Providence Park: Pdx.rollingthunder, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Multnomah Falls: John Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Willamette Falls: The original uploader was Cacophony at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pittock Mansion: PittockBack.jpg: Cacophony derivative work: Tiptoety talk, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Forest Park: EncMstr, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Oatfield: who provides what
Oatfield is unincorporated, so Clackamas County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Oct 2, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Oatfield.
Oatfield carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Oregon (mostly inland flooding) and owes part of its health edge to its incomes, but it has many renters stretched by housing costs.
Oatfield has 0.4 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
Just 2% of Oatfield’s working residents have a job in town. The town had 2,413 jobs in 2023, up 466 from 2013. For Oatfield, the typical household income is $103,000. The top destinations are Portland (37%), Milwaukie (5%) and Oregon City (4%).
| Oatfield | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 21% | 14% | 11% |
| Median household income | $103,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.3% | 10% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Oatfield’s public schools outperform 72% of Oregon districts
Public schools: North Clackamas SD 12. One of its 3 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alder Creek Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 810 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OR on state tests and graduation
Older than Oregon overall
People 65 and older are 29% of residents (19% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 17% of residents (23% statewide). For residents in Oatfield, the share who are under 18 is 15%. Here, 36% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, against 37% in Oregon as a whole. Its age of the median resident comes in at 50.3 years.
| Oatfield | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 50.3 years | 39.3 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 15% | 21% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 27% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±2.3 points). Across Oregon, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Oatfield | OR | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.2% | 10.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 6.2% | 9.6% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.4% | 8.5% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 10.4% | 14% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.7% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9.6% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.5% | 12.2% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 15.9% | 11.5% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 13.2% | 7.6% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6% | 8.2% | 10.4% |
| High school | 20.2% | 22.4% | 26% |
| Some college | 30.9% | 23.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 7.2% | 9.1% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 24.2% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11.4% | 14.1% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Oatfield has a low natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 91% of Oregon towns, with expected losses of about $257 per resident a year; that rating is what its B− for hazard risk is built on.
In Oatfield, the risk rating from FEMA is 31 of 100. The town has had 12 paid flood insurance claims since 1980. Expected losses in Oatfield break down as 39% from inland flooding and 34% from earthquakes.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Expect mild winters and pleasant summers in Oatfield
Oatfield’s peak summer temperature stands at 82°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Oatfield is healthier than two in three U.S. towns
Against the 8,094 U.S. towns with household incomes like Oatfield’s, it is less healthy than 55%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Among adults in Oatfield, 11% smoke cigarettes. The town beats the Oregon average on 5 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 3. Two figures for adults locally: 28% have been diagnosed with depression, 76% had a checkup this year.
| Oatfield | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 27% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 72% | 79% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 13% | 14% |
| What stands out | Oatfield | OR |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.8% | 8.5% |
| More adults screened for colon cancer | 67.9% | 63.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.3% | 8.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Oatfield keeps 4.9% of its land conserved
The trail network density in Oatfield is 0.3 miles per square mile. 1.1 miles of trail wind through 6 parks and preserves.
| Oatfield | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 4.9% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Alder Creek Wildlife Area | 0.3 mi | 3 |
| 2. Ann-Toni Schreiber Park | 0.1 mi | 7 |
| 3. Alma Myra Park | 0.1 mi | 2 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Oatfield sells for about $545K at the median
69.9% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 52.5% across Oregon.
In Oatfield, 85% of households own their home. Its typical rent is $1,786 a month. Homes sold in Oatfield spent a median 21 days on the market.
| Oatfield | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 85% | 65% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,786 a month | $1,413 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Oatfield
Colleges nearby
16 within 15 miles of the center of Oatfield
About 5 of every 100 Oatfield residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Oregon.
About Oatfield
Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States
Oatfield is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is in the Portland metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, Oatfield had a population of 13,977. It is named after Oatfield Road, which runs between Milwaukie and Gladstone. Oatfield Road was named for the Oatfield family, well-known pioneers of the area.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 201 ft
- Area code
- 503, 971
Oatfield’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Oatfield.
It grades higher overall than all 4 graded towns on its borders; Oak Grove (B) comes closest.
| Town | OR rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oatfield | #33 | B | D | — | B+ | B+ |
| Gladstone | #63 | C | D | C+ | B | B |
| Milwaukie | #39 | B− | D | C+ | B+ | A− |
| Oak Grove | #37 | B | D | — | B+ | B+ |
| Jennings Lodge | #50 | B− | D | — | B+ | B− |
Oatfield, Oak Grove and Jennings Lodge report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Oatfield with a neighbor →
Questions about Oatfield
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Oatfield, OR a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Oatfield grades B overall, better than 60% of U.S. towns and #33 of 142 in Oregon. It grades B+ for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Oatfield, OR expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $569,000, 15% above the Oregon typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.