Dating Pool in Oregon

What the numbers mean for dating in Oregon

Oregon's 4.23 million residents include an estimated 698,000 women aged 18 to 44, about 1.3% of the national pool. The Portland metro, at roughly 2.5 million including its Washington-side suburbs, contains well over half the state's young singles; the Willamette Valley towns of Salem, Eugene, and Corvallis — the latter two anchored by the state's flagship universities — add the rest of the depth. East of the Cascades, Bend has boomed as a remote-work destination but remains a market of barely 200,000.

The median Oregonian is 40.4 years old, older than the national average, and the state actually lost population in 2022 and 2023 — a reversal after decades as a migration magnet — which has slowed the influx of new singles into Portland. About 37% of women 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree, a strong figure, and roughly 34% of adult women have never married. Portland's dating pool remains notably countercultural, with high rates of cohabitation substituting for formal marriage.

A national probability from our calculator scales roughly with a state's share of the US population: preferences matching 1% of US women translate to about 6,980 women in Oregon. State demographics like education and marriage rates shift the real figure up or down.