49 Largest Oregon Cities: In 2020 Portland Ranked #17th in the Rate of Missing Middle Housing Production Per 1, 000 Units and 29th in the Share of All Production from Missing Middle Housing.

Earlier this week I posted information about 2020 total housing production in Oregon's largest 49 cities. 

Today I am switching focus to 2020 missing middle housing production. 

I include SF attached, ADU,'s manufactured housing, and duplexes, triplexes,and quadplexes in my counts of missing middle housing. 

I created a 4 page PDF file HERE and embedded below. The first two pages are graphs and the last two pages are a table. All pages include information for ALL 49 cities. [Note: I'm having issues with embedding files, so if embed below doesn't appear just click the PDF file link above to view or download the PDF]. 

The PDF page one graph shows two rates for each of the 49 cities. 

1. The rate of total housing production per 1,000 housing units in the 2020 census and 
2. The rate of missing middle housing production per 1,000 housing units in the 2020 census. 

The 49 cities are ranked in the graph by the high to low order of the rate of missing middle housing production per 1,000 units. Happy Valley had the highest ranking in this graph with missing middle housing produced at the rate of 10.8 units per 1,000 units in the 2020 census. 

The graph on the second page shows the ranked order share of total housing production that came from missing middle housing production. Klamath Falls had the highest ranking in this graph, with 60% of its housing production coming from missing middle housing production. 

Finally, the table on pages 3 and 4 of the PDF provided detailed information for each city including the counts of total unit production AND a breakout of counts for missing middle units produced for SF attached, ADU's, manufactured housing, and duplexes and triplexes/quadplexes. Rankings used in the graphs on pages one and two are also show in the table. 

Observations:

Total missing middle production of 1,828 units was 11% of all housing production in these cities.

However in these 49 cities for every 1,000 units in the 2020 census there were less then 2 missing middle housing units produced. 

Portland

Portland had the largest number of missing middle housing units produced at 551 out of total of 6,256 units produced. That 551 units is 28% of the  total of 1,828 missing middle units produced in these 49 cities.  That 28% missing middle share is the same as the Portland share of total housing units in these cities in the 2020 census. 

However, Portland ranked #17 in the rate of missing middle housing units produced per 1,000 housing units in the 2000 census [2] , and #29 in the share of its total production that came from missing middle housing production [8%].

Top Missing Middle Ranks

Happy Valley produced 87 missing middle housing units out of a total of 535 units it produced. It ranked #1 in the rate of missing middle housing units produced per 1,000 housing units in the 2020 census [11]  and #19 in the share of its total production that came from missing middle housing production. [16%].

Klamath Falls produced 35 missing middle housing units out of a total of 58 units it produced.  It ranked #9 in the rate of missing middle housing units produced per 1,000 housing units in the 2020 census [4], but ranked #1 in the share of its total production that came from missing middle housing [60%]. 

Courtesy, Oregon Housing Blog.