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Vernonia city, Oregon: commercial real estate data.
Vernonia city is a Census city of 2,786 people across 1.64 square miles of land, in Columbia County. Median household income is $83,411, 76.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.8 m.
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Vernonia
What Vernonia is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.64 sq mi
- Water area0.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,696
- County holding the largest share of its areaColumbia County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Vernonia
How many people live in Vernonia
- Population2,786
- Median age40.1
- Population under 18664 plus or minus 160
- Share under 1823.8 percent
- Population 65 and over418 plus or minus 99
- Share 65 and over15.0 percent
- Households1,087
- Family households786
- Share of households that are families72.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Vernonia
Income and work in Vernonia
- Median household income$83,411
- Per capita income$36,227
- Civilian labor force1,549 plus or minus 311
- Employed1,447
- Unemployed102 plus or minus 61
- Unemployment rate6.6 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Adults 25 and over1,951
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.0 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.4 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Vernonia
Housing in Vernonia
- Housing units1,182
- Occupied units1,087
- Vacant units95 plus or minus 63
- Vacancy rate8.0 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Owner occupied832
- Renter occupied255 plus or minus 107
- Ownership rate76.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$351,900
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,180
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.0 percent
- Single family units910
- Share single family77.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more106 plus or minus 68
- Share in buildings of two or more9.0 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Mobile homes166 plus or minus 76
- Median year structure built1990
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Vernonia
How Vernonia gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,259 plus or minus 260
- Commuting under 15 minutes357 plus or minus 112
- Share commuting under 15 minutes28.4 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more885 plus or minus 208
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more70.3 percent
- Drove alone67.1 percent
- Carpooled15.7 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Public transport0.1 percent plus or minus 0.3
- Walked5.6 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Worked from home10.0 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Vernonia
SBA 7(a) lending to Vernonia borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,813,800
- Average approval$604,600
- Median approval$204,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,600,000
- Largest approval$1,600,000
- Jobs supported11
- Jobs per approval3.7
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more33.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Columbia County, not Vernonia
Columbia County context, not Vernonia figures
These are Columbia County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Vernonia measurements.
- Establishments in Columbia County996
- Employment at those establishments, Columbia County9,272
- Covered employment, Columbia County11,981
- Average annual pay, Columbia County$54,228
- Average weekly wage, Columbia County$1,043
- Housing units permitted, Columbia County55
- Of those, single family, Columbia County47
- County product, 2024, Columbia County$2,079,491,000
- County product change over the prior year, Columbia County2.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Columbia County$66,518
Every figure in this section is published for Columbia County as a whole and is not a measurement of Vernonia. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Vernonia questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Vernonia, Oregon?
2,786, in 1,087 households. Vernonia city covers 1.64 square miles of land, which is 1,696 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Vernonia in?
Columbia County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Vernonia?
$83,411. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $351,900. Median gross rent is $1,180 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Vernonia businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $1.8 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $204,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Vernonia, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Vernonia borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Vernonia. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Vernonia figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Columbia County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Vernonia.
Is zoning published for Vernonia?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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