Fact text

  • The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, now internationally acclaimed, was launched during a Fourth of July party in 1935 by a guy named Angus Bowmer.
  • Ashland hired the same landscape architect who designed San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to create its beloved Lithia Park.
  • The town once piped mineral spring water across miles of Oregon wilderness hoping to build a fancy spa, then gave up and just started bottling it instead.
  • Siskiyou Summit, just 10 miles south of Ashland, is the highest point on the entire Interstate 5 freeway.
Your
Ashland
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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21138
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Total Population
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$
58364
Median Income
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$
469400
Median Home
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24
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Ashland
ranks for retirees?
22
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
8
Affordability
5
Healthcare
29
Climate
62

Results

Ashland

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
8

Oregon skips the sales tax entirely and exempts Social Security benefits from state income tax, a meaningful advantage for retirees on fixed income.

State sales tax here runs about

0

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
8
0
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
5

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
5
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
29

The area has

3

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
62

A

Temperate

climate — summers peak near

85

°F, winters dip to about

29

°F, with roughly

1

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Temperate
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Relatively Moderate

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Relatively Moderate

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