Coast Range Association

To build just and sustainable communities

that provide for people and the natural world

 

Providing resources to understand your

watershed, community, and economy.

If your work is located within the Coast Range region or Willamette Basin and it involves

building a more sustainable Northwest, call the CRA office and discuss how our socioeconomic

and economic program may assist your project. We are happy to support your local conservation

or restoration work with data and helpful advice. Call 541.231.6651 for more information.

 

Coming soon:

An Ecological Economics Approach to Understanding Oregon’s

Coastal Economy and Environment

Paula Swedeen, Ph.D. and Dave Batker, Earth Economics

Hans Radtke, Ph.D., The Research Group

Roul Boumans, Ph.D., Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

 

The structure of the coastal economy: Each income sector

in the diagram below is proportional to the sectors contribution to all coastal income.

From An Ecological Economics Approach to Understanding Oregon’s Coastal Economy and Environment

 

Economic Profile System (EPS):

The CRA now provides detailed reports on county and city economic measures and

trends using the Sonoran Institute's Economic Profile System EPS) system. The EPS

provides over twenty years of detailed economic data on employment, income, and population

trends for each county in Oregon.

Go to Western Oregon's County Economic Profiles

 

Community Socioeconomic Information System

Using the USDA Forest Service's Community Socioeconomic Information System, CRA staff can

provide a detailed socioeconomic view of the rural social landscape of western Oregon and Washington.

 

The above map is unique because it allocates all rural space to community areas

based on census data. The map was created by social scientists at the Forest Service

as part of the Community Socioeconomic Information System (CSIS) .  Detailed socioeconomic

comparisons between 1990 and 2000 census data are available for each community identified

in the CSIS.

As part of a CRA project supporting ecological restoration in the Upper Willamette watershed, we used GIS to determine the socioeconomic communities for western Oregon watershed councils. This allows us to provide a detailed socioeconomic picture of each council's watershed area.

Upper Willamette Basin map of socioeconomic communities and watershed council

boundaries developed by the Coast Range Association. Main roads, rivers and hillshade

are added. Maps and socioeconomic data sets are available for all watershed council areas

of western Oregon.

 

 

Coast Range Association

Offices in Corvallis and Newport

(541) 752-3146

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