Washington County, Oregon

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

CoreWeave

Resi rate Δ (Portland General Electric)

+29.7%

Home price Δ (3y)

-1.1%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+6.7%

Population (2024 ACS)

604K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$107,772

Key takeaways

Washington County has 600,266 residents and a median household income of $104,434, the highest income of any AI county nationwide. 46.7% of residents over 25 hold a bachelor's degree.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003, B19013, B15003 (Washington County, OR)
Portland General Electric residential rates rose 29.7%, from 14.0 to 18.2 cents per kWh between 2021 and 2023, adding about $450 per year to a typical household bill. That delta lands on Hillsboro CoreWeave at the same time Intel is contracting its 16,000-employee Silicon Forest footprint.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Portland General Electric Co, OR) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Hillsboro, OR)
Hillsboro is the fifth-most populous city in Oregon at 106,447 residents and the only AI county where data centers compete with Intel for fiber, power, and tax abatement. Three trans-Pacific fiber optic cable systems land in Hillsboro.Source: sources[0] (Wikipedia: Hillsboro, OR)
Home prices fell 1.1% over three years, the only negative 3-year home-price reading in any AI county nationwide. The CoreWeave/Flexential build is therefore the rare AI campus arriving as residential demand cools rather than accelerates.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv (FIPS 41067)

Washington County is 11.2% Asian (67,098 residents) and 18.2% Hispanic, the most diverse county in the Oregon AI cluster. Hillsboro's Silicon Forest workforce has carried a Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian engineering base since the 1990s Intel buildout.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001 and B03003 (Washington County, OR)
Manufacturing still employs 17.6% of Washington County's workforce (55,826 jobs), the highest manufacturing share of any Oregon AI county. The CoreWeave Hillsboro build inherits the fiber, fab-experienced labor, and substation density that Intel's contraction is releasing.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050 (Washington County, OR)
94.7% of Washington households subscribe to wired broadband, the highest connectivity in any batch-3 county. Hillsboro's three trans-Pacific cable landings and Frontier's residential fiber footprint give the CoreWeave campus a connectivity floor no other AI county matches.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002 (Washington County, OR)
Median gross rent is $1,773, the highest of any AI county nationwide. The CoreWeave/Flexential build lands in a rental market where the residential cost burden is already structural, well before any AI-driven rate pass-through.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25064 (Washington County, OR)