Who lives in Aloha, Oregon?
Oregon · West · 54K residents · Suburban
Key signals
vs. national baselineWho they are
Aloha is an unincorporated community of about 53,532 people in Washington County, sitting between Beaverton and Hillsboro with no city hall of its own and services drawn from the county and two school districts. It is one of Oregon's most racially diverse suburbs, a working-family belt inside the Silicon Forest where Intel, Nike, Tektronix, and HP all sit within a short commute. The age curve skews toward the middle of working life: the 35-44 band carries roughly 21% of residents against about 16% nationally, and the 65-and-over share runs lighter at about 15% versus a national fifth.
The loudest signal here is appetite for new technology. Around 40% of residents are early adopters, a clear step above the national 27%, which fits a place ringed by chip fabs and engineering campuses where a new device or platform is part of the working vocabulary. That instinct travels with financial footing: roughly 57% hold good credit, several points up on the country.
Gender split
vs. national baselineAge distribution
audience % · vs. national baselineHow they think
Personality in Aloha sits close to the national center. Openness and agreeableness land right on baseline, and conscientiousness is within a point. The one real dip is extraversion, a few points below average, which reads like a commuter suburb built around households and quiet streets rather than a dense social scene.
Decision-making is measured. Both how fast residents commit and how much risk they will shoulder track the national shape, with only a mild pull away from the most cautious end. This is an audience that weighs a choice without freezing on it, comfortable enough to try the new thing but not chasing a gamble for its own sake.
Decision psychology
audience % · vs. national baselineDecision speed
Decision speed here mirrors the country almost exactly, with a slight lean toward acting on impulse over freezing in analysis. That near-national shape rules out manufactured urgency as a lever, because a countdown clock has nothing distinctive to grab onto in a deliberate suburb. Lead instead with clear substantiation and side-by-side proof, the kind of detail an engineering-adjacent household will actually read before committing.
Risk tolerance runs close to national, with the only real movement a thinner cautious low end. Combined with the strong saving and full insurance coverage elsewhere in the profile, this is a household that can absorb a calculated bet but has no reason to gamble blindly. Upside and a genuinely new feature can earn their place in the pitch, as long as the downside is named and the guarantee is real.
Risk tolerance
Personality fingerprint
Big Five (OCEAN) · 0–50–100 scaleAudience score on each Big Five axis. Dashed outline = national average.
Right on the national line. Aloha residents are as ready to consider a new product or idea as the country at large, no more contrarian and no more set in their ways. That makes novelty a fair lever to pull but not a guaranteed one, so pair anything new with a plain reason it is worth the switch.
Essentially national. These are households that follow through on a plan and keep their commitments at the same rate as everyone else, which squares with the steady saving and good credit seen elsewhere in the profile. Reliability claims will be taken at face value here rather than treated as a stretch.
A few points under national, the quiet end of the dial. This is a suburb that runs on household and routine more than on going out and being seen, so messaging built around social proof and crowds lands softer than messaging built around personal fit and what works at home.
Sits right at the national mark. Residents extend trust and give good faith about as readily as anyone in the country, so warm and cooperative framing earns its keep without needing to be dialed up.
A couple of points calmer than national. Aloha leans toward even-keeled rather than easily rattled, which means fear and worst-case framing get less traction here. Lead with steady upside and competence rather than alarm.
What they care about
Environmental concern leans engaged without turning into activism. The largest group is the aware middle at roughly 43%, above the national 38%, while the unconcerned end thins out. It is the posture of households that recycle, notice, and care, without organizing their lives around the cause. Ethical consumption follows the same temperate line: fewer residents than average opt out entirely, and the occasional-buyer group sits a touch high.
Trust in companies runs slightly warmer than the country. The trusting group is a few points up and the outright cynical group is smaller, so blunt anti-corporate framing has less to push against here. Preference for local business sits right on the national mark, neither a draw nor a deterrent.
Environmental priority
how much they prioritize sustainability when buying
Corporate skepticism
distrust of big-company motives and messaging
Local business preference
bias toward small/local over national chains
Ethical consumption
whether they actually act on ethical buying preferences
How to reach them
Facebook remains the single most-used platform here, though it sits a few points below the national Facebook share, while Instagram over-indexes at roughly 23% against 19%. YouTube and TikTok hold their usual ground, and the group reachable on no platform at all is smaller than average, so this is a connected audience.
Format preference is broad rather than narrow. Short video leads slightly and a healthy quarter favor a mix of formats, which means a campaign can run across feed video and written detail without leaving a segment behind. The lift on Instagram is the cleanest place to lead.
Where attention lives
social platformFormat mix
content formatHow they spend
Aloha households run a tidy ledger. The non-saver group is down to about 17% against a national 27%, and the regular savers sit above average, so a clear majority puts something aside on a schedule. Investing leans the same way, with the no-stake group thinner than the country, and only about 11% carry minimal insurance against a national 20%. This is a covered, cushioned household economy.
Buying happens on a steady cadence rather than in bursts. Monthly and weekly purchasers both run above national while the rare-buyer group shrinks. Price is the leading motivation, in line with the rest of the country, so value still has to be shown plainly even to a comfortable saver.
Purchase motivation
Purchase frequency
Savings behavior
How they live
Wellness in Aloha is hands-on in some places and hands-off in others. About 42% take a proactive approach to staying healthy, above the national third, and the indifferent group is noticeably smaller. Yet when it comes to medical care itself, roughly 40% are reactive only, dealing with problems as they surface rather than scheduling ahead, a step up on the national 30%. The pattern is self-directed health, gym and habits and diet, paired with a wait-and-see relationship to the clinic.
Sleep gets real weight: only about 13% treat it as a low priority, well under the national 22%. Spending on well-being holds up too, with the minimal-spender group running several points light. Openness to talking about mental health tracks the national norm, neither guarded nor especially vocal.
Health consciousness
audience % · vs. national baselineMental wellness openness
audience % · vs. national baselineHow this profile was built
This profile draws on a population of 10M+ statistically modeled U.S. adults, calibrated against Census ACS data, BLS employment statistics, CDC BRFSS (N>400K), and peer-reviewed personality and consumer research. The traits most distinctive to Aloha, Oregon (tech adoption, credit health, and healthcare style) are primarily derived from the peer-reviewed and federal sources listed below.
References
- 1.U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey — Demographic Tables (B01001, B15003, B19001, B23025, C24050)
- 2.Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics / Current Employment Statistics
- 3.Bureau of Labor Statistics (2024). Consumer Expenditure Surveys
- 4.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) (N=400,000)
- 5.Pew Research Center (2016). Technology Adoption by Baby Boomers (and Everybody Else) (N=1,520)
Need these insights for your own audiences?
Get full distributions on every audience in the library plus custom audience queries with your own filters.