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Oregon / Marion County

How's Marion County?

One question about Marion County, Oregon, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Right now in Marion County

As of the site's last build: the drought map of October 20, 2026, the wildfire list of October 27, 2026 and stream gages on October 25, 2026. Every state.

Drought

99%

99% of its area in drought. Four weeks before: 99%; a year before: 100%.

US Drought Monitor, via waterdata.dev

Wildfires not yet out

0

None reported here.

NIFC WFIGS, via wildfiredata.dev. A small fire can stay "not out" for weeks after it stops burning.

Rivers and streams

  • BREITENBUSH R ABV FRENCH CR NR DETROIT: 99.4 ft³/s, 27% of last year
  • BUTTE CREEK AT MONITOR: 6.74 ft³/s, 19% of last year
  • LITTLE NORTH SANTIAM RIVER NEAR MEHAMA: 58.3 ft³/s, 14% of last year
  • NO SANTIAM R BLW BOULDER CRK, NR DETROIT: 279 ft³/s, 53% of last year
  • NORTH SANTIAM RIVER AT MEHAMA: 1,350 ft³/s, 76% of last year
  • NORTH SANTIAM RIVER AT NIAGARA: 1,250 ft³/s, 98% of last year
  • and 3 more gages

USGS daily mean flow, October 25, 2026 against October 25, 2025, via waterdata.dev. One year back is all the API keeps, so this is not a long-term normal.

Marion County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 2024 to 2025:jobs, wages and workplaces from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it; the year's temperature and precipitation against normal from NOAA; presidential and House votes from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$1,261+4.4%+24.9%+57.7%Highest quartile461 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 10 of 36 in Oregon
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives175.8K jobs+2.6%+15.6%+21.1%Highest quartile188 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 3 of 36 in Oregon
Business establishments2025 · workplaces covered by unemployment insurance, each location counted once12.2K establishments−4.2%+4.4%+22.3%Highest quartile191 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 5 of 36 in Oregon
Unemployment rate2025 · by where people live; 2025 averages 11 months, as BLS does, since October was not collected5.0%+0.8 pts−1.9 pts−0.8 ptsHighest quartile637 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 25 of 36 in Oregon
Labor force2025 · residents working or looking for work180.8K people+2.7%+10.5%+18.6%Highest quartile212 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 5 of 36 in Oregon

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air2025 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days80.0% of days−1.4 pts+3.8 pts+6.8 pts2nd quartile398 of 916 counties in 2025 · 9 of 21 in Oregon
Median daily AQI2025 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate35 AQI0 AQI−1 AQI−2 AQILowest quartile697 of 916 counties in 2025 · 8 of 21 in Oregon
Days with unhealthy air2025 · AQI above 100, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days0 days−4 days−11 days−3 days3rd quartile543 of 916 counties in 2025 · 10 of 21 in Oregon
Days when ozone set the AQI2025 · the pollutant with the highest AQI that day33.4% of days−4.0 pts−0.5 pts−2.7 pts3rd quartile643 of 916 counties in 2025 · 5 of 21 in Oregon
Days when fine particles set the AQI2025 · the pollutant with the highest AQI that day66.6% of days+4.0 pts+0.5 pts+2.7 pts2nd quartile237 of 916 counties in 2025 · 17 of 21 in Oregon
Worst air day (highest AQI)2025 · the single worst day; one wildfire or fireworks night can set it85 AQI−44 AQI−1,187 AQI−91 AQILowest quartile746 of 916 counties in 2025 · 17 of 21 in Oregon
90th-percentile daily AQI2025 · the AQI that only the worst tenth of days exceeded58 AQI+2 AQI−5 AQI−4 AQI2nd quartile450 of 916 counties in 2025 · 11 of 21 in Oregon
Days when nitrogen dioxide set the AQI2025 · traffic and combustion; the pollutant with the highest AQI that day0.0% of days0.0 pts0.0 pts0.0 ptsHighest quartile138 of 916 counties in 2025 · 2 of 21 in Oregon
Days when coarse particles (PM10) set the AQI2025 · dust and other coarse particles; the pollutant with the highest AQI that day0.0% of days0.0 pts0.0 pts0.0 ptsHighest quartile188 of 916 counties in 2025 · 2 of 21 in Oregon
Days when carbon monoxide set the AQI2025 · the pollutant with the highest AQI that day0.0% of days0.0 pts0.0 pts0.0 ptsHighest quartile20 of 916 counties in 2025 · 1 of 21 in Oregon

Weather

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Yearly temperature against normal2025 · the year's average temperature minus its 1991–2020 average+1.6 °F+0.9 °F+1.0 °F−0.9 °FHighest quartile639 of 3,134 counties in 2025 · 21 of 36 in Oregon
Yearly precipitation, share of normal2025 · rain and melted snow over the year, against its 1991–2020 average88% of normal−20 pts−3 pts−3 pts3rd quartile2,031 of 3,134 counties in 2025 · 24 of 36 in Oregon

Presidential vote

IndicatorLatest4 yr8 yr12 yrAmong countiesTrend
Presidential vote margin2024 · Republican minus Democratic share of all presidential votes castR+2.0R+3.1D+2.1D+1.2Lowest quartile2,625 of 3,104 counties in 2024 · 26 of 36 in Oregon
Third-party and write-in share2024 · every presidential vote not for the Democratic or Republican candidate3.6% of votes+0.2 pts−7.9 pts+0.4 ptsHighest quartile78 of 3,104 counties in 2024 · 16 of 36 in Oregon
Votes cast for president2024 · a count of votes, not turnout: there is no count of eligible voters here to divide by156.7K votes−5.3%+14.5%+30.2%Highest quartile223 of 3,104 counties in 2024 · 5 of 36 in Oregon

20 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Marion County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Marion County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.