2020 census As of the
2020 census, there were 2,512,859 people within the MSA. The racial makeup of the Portland MSA is as follows: • White alone: 71.5% • Black or African American alone: 3.0% • American Indian and Alaska Native alone: 1.1% • Asian alone: 7.1% • Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone: 0.6% • Some Other Race alone: 6.0% • Two or more races: 10.7% The ethnic makeup of the Portland MSA is as follows: • Hispanic or Latino: 13.2% • Not Hispanic or Latino: 86.8%
2010 census As of the
2010 census, there were 2,226,009 people, 867,794 households, and 551,008 families residing within the MSA. The racial makeup of the MSA were as follows: •
White: 76.3% •
Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 10.9% (8.5%
Mexican, 0.4%
Spanish or Spaniard, 0.3%
Guatemalan, 0.3%
Puerto Rican, 0.2%
Cuban, 0.2%
Salvadoran, 0.1%
Peruvian) •
Asian: 5.7% (1.2%
Chinese, 1.2%
Vietnamese, 0.7%
Indian, 0.6%
Filipino, 0.6%
Korean, 0.4%
Japanese) •
Black or African American: 2.9% •
American Indian and Alaskan Native: 0.9% •
Pacific Islander: 0.5% (0.1%
Native Hawaiian, 0.1%
Guamanian or
Chamorro, 0.1%
Samoan) •
Two or more races: 4.1% • Some other race: 4.9% In 2010 the median income for a household in the MSA was $53,078 and the median income for a family was $64,290. The per capita income was $27,451. The Portland–Vancouver–Hillsboro
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), the 23rd largest in the
United States, has a population of 2,226,009 (2010 Census). Of them, 1,789,580 live in
Oregon (46.7% of the state's population) while the remaining 436,429 live in
Washington (6.7% of state's population). It consists of
Multnomah,
Washington,
Clackamas,
Columbia and
Yamhill counties in Oregon, as well as
Clark and
Skamania counties in
Washington. The area includes Portland and the neighboring cities of
Vancouver,
Beaverton,
Gresham,
Hillsboro,
Milwaukie,
Lake Oswego,
Oregon City,
Fairview,
Wood Village,
Troutdale,
Tualatin,
Tigard,
West Linn,
Battle Ground,
Camas and
Washougal. Changes in
house prices for the metro area are publicly tracked on a regular basis using the
Case–Shiller index; the statistic is published by
Standard & Poor's and is also a component of S&P's 20-city
composite index of the value of the U.S. residential real estate market. ==Portland-Vancouver-Salem Combined Statistical Area==