Mark Graves/The Oregonian

By Kale Williams

Oregon is full of all kinds of people. From the tired stereotype of the mustachioed Portland hipster to the ranchers of the eastern high desert to the vintners of Willamette Valley to the salty coast dwellers, and everything in between, each and every Beaver State resident is as unique as their genetic makeup.

But what if you could boil all that down into one person, if you could use statistics to distill the cornucopia of Oregonians down to one individual.

Well, it turns out you can. Using demographic data from the 2016 American Community Survey, the most recent year for which data is available, we mocked up the "typical Oregonian," the fictional embodiment of all our state's averages and medians. Let's meet her.

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Gender

She’s a woman. By a count of 2,026,038 men to 2,067,427 women, Oregon is approximately 50.5 percent female, making the average resident a woman.

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Race

She's white. Oregon is notably lacking in racial diversity and has a long and sordid history of racism that continues to color the present. The Beaver State is 76 percent white, 13 percent Hispanic, 4 percent Asian and 2 percent black.

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Age

She’s almost 40. With a median age of 39.2, the typical Oregonian is almost 1.5 years older than the median age nationwide.

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Income

She makes a little more than $30,000 a year. The per capita income for the state is $30,822, nearly exactly the same as the nationwide figure. The median income for an Oregon household is a little less than twice that at $57,532.

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Where she lives

Once per decade, the U.S. Census Bureau calculates the central point of population for every state. In 2010, the last time they performed the calculation for Oregon, that point landed about 32 miles southeast of Salem, just off State Route 22 near the town of Lyons.

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Commute

She spends about 24 minutes a day getting to work. Obviously, this number will fluctuate wildly between those who drive in Portland and those who drive in the more rural areas of the state, but our average Oregonian drives alone and spends 23.9 minutes each way doing it.

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Housing

She owns her house and it’s worth a little more than $287,000, about 1.4 times the median home cost nationwide.

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Education

She finished high school, but hasn't gotten a degree. In Oregon, about 90 percent of residents say they finished high school or got a GED, but only roughly 33 percent went on to obtain a bachelor's degree or higher. Still, both of those rates are slightly higher than the same statistics nationwide.

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-- Kale Williams

kwilliams@oregonian.com

503-294-4048

@sfkale