Oregon County Distress Index
Financial distress scores for all 36 counties in Oregon, scored 0–100 across five domains. A county's score is the share of U.S. counties it is more distressed than; the average Oregon county scores 55.0. 7 counties score high, very high, or extreme.
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Urban Institute, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts | Scores as of Aug 2026
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Klamath County is the most distressed of Oregon's 36 counties
County Distress Index score for Oregon's 36 counties, from green (least distressed, 0–29) to red (most distressed, 80–100). Data from 2024 to Aug 2026.
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County Distress Index score · data from 2024 to Aug 2026
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Score Distribution
How Oregon's 36 county scores are distributed across the 0–100 scale.
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36 counties ranked by distress score. Click column headers to sort.
| State Rank | Nat'l Rank | County | Score | Score Label | Primary Driver |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | — | Klamath County | 85 | very high county distress | Labor |
| 2 | — | Lake County | 81 | very high county distress | Labor |
| 3 | — | Josephine County | 78 | high county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 4 | — | Lincoln County | 76 | high county distress | Labor |
| 5 | — | Coos County | 75 | high county distress | Labor |
| 6 | — | Douglas County | 73 | high county distress | Labor |
| 7 | — | Jefferson County | 72 | high county distress | Labor |
| 8 | — | Linn County | 67 | moderate-high county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 9 | — | Wasco County | 67 | moderate-high county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 10 | — | Curry County | 66 | moderate-high county distress | Labor |
| 11 | — | Sherman County | 63 | moderate-high county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 12 | — | Marion County | 63 | moderate-high county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 13 | — | Jackson County | 62 | moderate-high county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 14 | — | Malheur County | 61 | moderate-high county distress | Labor |
| 15 | — | Lane County | 60 | moderate-high county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 16 | — | Columbia County | 55 | moderate county distress | Labor |
| 17 | — | Harney County | 54 | moderate county distress | Labor |
| 18 | — | Grant County | 53 | moderate county distress | Labor |
| 19 | — | Crook County | 52 | moderate county distress | Labor |
| 20 | — | Umatilla County | 52 | moderate county distress | Labor |
| 21 | — | Baker County | 51 | moderate county distress | Labor |
| 22 | — | Wheeler County | 51 | moderate county distress | Labor |
| 23 | — | Tillamook County | 51 | moderate county distress | Labor |
| 24 | — | Yamhill County | 50 | moderate county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 25 | — | Union County | 50 | moderate county distress | Labor |
| 26 | — | Multnomah County | 49 | moderate-low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 27 | — | Clatsop County | 49 | moderate-low county distress | Labor |
| 28 | — | Polk County | 46 | moderate-low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 29 | — | Gilliam County | 36 | low-moderate county distress | Labor |
| 30 | — | Wallowa County | 34 | low-moderate county distress | Labor |
| 31 | — | Morrow County | 33 | low-moderate county distress | Labor |
| 32 | — | Benton County | 33 | low-moderate county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 33 | — | Clackamas County | 31 | low-moderate county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 34 | — | Deschutes County | 29 | low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 35 | — | Washington County | 28 | low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
| 36 | — | Hood River County | 21 | low county distress | Debt Burden (housing basis) |
How County Scores Work
Each county is scored 0–100 using five equal-weighted domains. Each domain averages its member indicators' county ranks, the domains are averaged, and that average is ranked against every U.S. county. So a county's score is the share of U.S. counties it is more distressed than. National ranks are shown only for the 100 most and 100 least distressed counties, because ranks in between move between updates. Counties with identical composite scores share a rank, marked T- for tied.
Urban Institute data: Breno Braga, Signe-Mary McKernan, Samantha Atherton, and Kassandra Martinchek, "Debt in America," last updated November 20, 2025, https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/debt-america-2025. Licensed under ODC-By 1.0. The County Distress Index is American Default Research's own calculation; the Urban Institute does not produce or endorse it.