2000 Housing Production Per 1,000 Housing Units In Oregon's 49 Largest Cities: Portland Ranked 8th, Happy Valley #1

Hillsboro recently submitted 2000 housing production data to DLCD required by HB 4006.[There's more on the bill, including reporting requirements, on the DLCD landing page HERE]. 

With the Hillsboro submission 2020 housing production data is now available for all 49 cities subject to the reporting requirements of the bill. (Hopefully, more cities will comply with the Feb. 1st statutory deadline, so that 2021 production data is available more quickly than the 2020 data). 

Note that I am focusing here on total housing PRODUCTION (occupancy certificates granted) as reported by each city and NOT housing construction permits. 

Regulated production and total and regulated permit data is also reported but is NOT the focus of this blog post. 

Use of  Production Rates vs Production Counts

I may have additional related posts in the coming days but to start I compared the counts of housing units produced in 2020 vs the number of housing units in these cities as reported in the 2020 Census. 

This method of comparison allows an assessment relative to the size of the housing stock in each city as opposed to just a raw count of units produced. 

Observations:

These 49 cities had 59% of the total Oregon housing units in the 2020 Census. [1,062,261/1,8137,747].

The 2020 overall rate of production in these 49 cities was 15 units per 1,000 housing units. (15,944 total units produced/1,062,261 housing units).

Happy Valley #1:

Happy Valley had the highest production rate at 66.2 units per 1,000 housing units; that rate was triple the housing production rate in the City of Portland (see below).   

City of Portland #8

While the City of Portland had by far the highest NUMBER of units produced (6,256 ) seven other cities had a higher RATE of production than the City of Portland, which produced 21 units per 1,000 housing units. 

Nonetheless, Portland had 28% [303,034] of the total housing units in the 2020 census in these 49 cities, but produced a larger 39% share of all units in 2020. 

10 Cities Had a Housing Production Rate of More Than 20 Units Per 1,000 Housing Units

These 10 cities had 39 % [410,744] of the total housing units in the 49 cities in the 2020 census, but reported a substantially higher 60% [9,635 units] of total housing production in these 49 cities.   

(The last city reporting 2020 data, Hillsboro, ranked 19th with a production rate of 13 units per 1,000 housing units).

14 Cities Had a Housing Production Rate Below 5 Units Per 1,000 Housing Units

There were 14 cities where less than 5 units were produced for every 1,000 housing units, including six cities in the Portland metro area. 

These cities had 16 % [170,923] of the total housing units in these 49 cities in the 2020 Census, but reported a much smaller 4.5% [721 units] of the total housing production in these 49 cities.   

Graph of 2020 Production Rate Per 1,000 Units for All 49 Large Cities:

Courtesy, Oregon Housing Blog.