Klamath County, Oregon: commercial real estate data.

Klamath County

How many people live in Klamath County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202470,247
• Households28,999
• Average household size2.42
• Median household income$58,830
• Median age41.3
• Median gross rent$991 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$280,400
• Home value to household income4.8 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income20.2 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.7 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.4 percent
• Adults 25 and over49,500
• Population under 1815,216
• Share under 1821.7 percent
• Population 65 and over15,695
• Share 65 and over22.3 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6439,336
• Civilian labor force28,179
• Unemployment rate7.2 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over51.2 percent
• Rank by population among Oregon counties15th of 36
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included787th of 3,222

Klamath County is the 15th largest of 36 Oregon counties by population. A median home costs 4.8 times median household income, which is seriously unaffordable by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 22.3 percent against 21.7 percent, which points demand at health care, services and single story product rather than schools.

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year.

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Where are people moving to Klamath County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving1,839
• People arriving, from those returns3,255
• Tax returns filed by households leaving1,742
• Net household movement97
• Adjusted gross income arriving$101.3 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$-2.6 m
• Average income of an arriving household$55,105
• Average income of a leaving household$59,693
• Largest single originJackson County (130 households)
• Largest single destinationJackson County (163 households)

Households arriving report $4,588 less average income than households leaving, which drains spending power even where headcount holds up. The largest single source of arrivals is Jackson County, which is the catchment a retail or multifamily study should look at first.

US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.

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Employment by industry in Klamath County

• Covered employment, annual average23,856
• Establishments reporting2,382
• Average annual pay$53,739
• Average weekly wage$1,033
• Health care and social assistance, employment4,551
• Health care and social assistance, average annual pay$61,309
• Retail trade, employment3,089
• Retail trade, average annual pay$35,140
• Accommodation and food services, employment2,424
• Accommodation and food services, average annual pay$26,162
• Manufacturing, employment1,604
• Manufacturing, average annual pay$62,486
• Construction, employment1,193
• Other services, except public administration, employment946

Health care and social assistance is the largest private sector at 4,551 jobs, 19.1 percent of covered employment.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages.

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Building permits in Klamath County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 2024232
• Declared construction value permitted$64.2 m
• Single family units authorized142
• Multifamily units authorized90
• Multifamily share of units38.8 percent
• Average declared value per unit$276,851
• Units authorized per 1,000 households8.0

Single-family homes are 61.2 percent of units authorized, so the pipeline is predominantly single-family.

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual.

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SBA loan default and charge-off rates in Klamath County

Do SBA loans in Klamath County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded7
• Paid in full7
• Charged off0
• Status: Exempt from disclosure42
• Status: Cancelled6
• Status: Paid in full7
• Status: Committed, not yet disbursed6

Only 7 loans have reached a final outcome, fewer than the 30 a charge-off rate needs, so no rate is published.

Compare against the national and state SBA charge-off rates, computed the same way over resolved loans only.

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.

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How large is Klamath County?

• Land area5,941 sq mi
• Rank by land area among Oregon counties4th of 36
• Width, east to west72 mi
• Height, north to south112.1 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary7
• Residents per square mile of land12
• Establishments per square mile0.26

US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices, TIGER county boundaries. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year. US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023.

Feasibility studies

When a Klamath County site needs a document a lender will accept.

The same data layer behind this page is the one the studies are written from. A study for a Klamath County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202470,247
• Households28,999
• Average household size2.42
• Median household income$58,830
• Median age41.3

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Cities and places in Klamath.

20 Census places lie wholly or partly in Klamath County. All 20 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked.

A further 2 of the county's 61 SBA 7(a) approvals are to borrowers in cities that match no Census place in Klamath County, the largest being Milwaukie (1), La Pine (1). Those are postal cities, unincorporated areas and cities outside the county, so no place row claims them; they are counted in the county total above.