Health care · Small-town market · Oregon
Medical and dental practices in The Dalles, OR area
How The Dalles, OR area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for medical and dental practices: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 32 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #433 of 538 scored small-town markets
#10 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Oregon
- Listings
- 78
- 4 chain locations (5%)
- Official establishments
- 34
- −8.1% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $12.2M
- On medical and dental services · $1,153 a household
- Spending per listing
- $156K
- 2% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 73.8
- 13% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 26,310
- −1.1% since 2020
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What this means
For medical and dental practices, The Dalles area has a Groundwork market score of 32 (lower middle): #433 of 538 scored small-town markets and #10 of 12 scored small-town markets based in Oregon. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Household spending on medical and dental services in The Dalles area comes to about $12.2M a year: $1,153 per household, 10% below the U.S. average. That is about $156K of household spending for each practice on map listings, 2% above the U.S. figure of $152K.
The Dalles area has 78 medical and dental practices on map listings as of September 2026. Chain locations make up 5% of them, against 11% across the U.S. That is 73.8 per 10,000 households, 13% below the U.S. rate of 84.5.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in The Dalles area was 34 in 2023, down 8.1% from 2019. That is one for every 311 households, against one for every 270 across the U.S. Population estimates show The Dalles area declined 1.1% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How The Dalles area compares
The same measures for Oregon and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the medical and dental practices counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | The Dalles area | Oregon | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 73.8 | 89.3 | 84.5 |
| Spending per listing | $156K | $148K | $152K |
| Households per official establishment | 311 | 288 | 270 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | −8.1% | −1.2% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.1% | +0.7% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,153 | $1,324 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $64,175 | $83,011 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 32 | 41 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 34−8.1% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 311
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $22.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 22Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 784 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 80The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in The Dalles area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in The Dalles area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 26,310−1.1% since 2020
- Households
- 10,563
- Median age
- 42.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 2,381 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 11
- Median household income
- $64,175+20.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $93,059
- Median home value
- $367,400
- Jobs located here
- 10,091
- Daytime population
- 24,380Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Oregon
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hermiston-Pendleton, OR | 66 | 146 | 44.2 | $267K | +1.8% | #122 of 538 |
| 2Newport, OR | 65 | 112 | 48.5 | $237K | +0.3% | #129 of 538 |
| 3Brookings, OR | 57 | 46 | 41.2 | $281K | −3.8% | #199 of 538 |
| 4Coos Bay-North Bend, OR | 54 | 123 | 42.8 | $267K | −1.5% | #228 of 538 |
| 5Roseburg, OR | 54 | 240 | 50.5 | $225K | +0.6% | #229 of 538 |
| 6Klamath Falls, OR | 54 | 160 | 55.2 | $201K | +0.9% | #232 of 538 |
| 7Astoria, OR | 45 | 122 | 67.8 | $182K | −0.6% | #323 of 538 |
| 8Baker City, OR | 40 | 65 | 88.4 | $126K | −0.4% | #370 of 538 |
| 9Ontario, OR-ID | 37 | 178 | 89.1 | $127K | +5.0% | #399 of 538 |
| 10The Dalles, OR | 32 | 78 | 73.8 | $156K | −1.1% | #433 of 538 |
Other business types in The Dalles area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
- Doctors, dentists and clinics32
- Dentists and orthodontists24
- Primary care and pediatrics43
- Urgent care and walk-in clinics
- Chiropractors43
- Physical therapy27
- Optometrists and eye care28
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many medical and dental practices are in The Dalles, OR area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 78 medical and dental practices in The Dalles area. 4 of them (5%) are chain locations. The listings count every outpatient clinic and practice, and urgent care. Official counts show 34 businesses with payroll classed as offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in 2023, down 8.1% from 2019. Official counts also show 22 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in The Dalles, OR area spend on medical and dental services?
About $12.2M a year, or $1,153 per household. That is 10% below the U.S. average (an index of 90, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 78 medical and dental practices on map listings, it comes to $156K per practice. It is estimated from the incomes of the 10,563 households in The Dalles area and national spending patterns by income.
How does The Dalles, OR area compare with the U.S. for medical and dental practices?
The Dalles area has 73.8 medical and dental practices per 10,000 households, 13% below the U.S. rate of 84.5. Spending per practice is $156K, 2% above the U.S. figure of $152K. At the U.S. ratio of medical and dental practices to household spending, The Dalles area would have about 80, against 78 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 311 households, against one for every 270 across the U.S. The official count fell 8.1% from 2019 to 2023, against +1.5% for the U.S.
How fast is The Dalles, OR area growing?
Population estimates put The Dalles area at 26,310 people in 2025, down 1.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 10,563 households. The median household income in The Dalles area is $64,175 a year, 21% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 20.9% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Dalles area scores 32 for medical and dental practices (lower middle), #433 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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