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| RANKING | GRADUATE PHYSICS |
| 1 | University of Oregon, Department of Physics Address: 120 Willamette Hall, Eugene, OR 97403-1274 Phone: (541) 346-4751 Email: bgrimm@uoregon.edu Website: http://physics.uoregon.edu |
| 2 | Oregon State University, Department of Physics Address: 301 Weniger Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-6507 Phone: (541) 737-4631 Email: gradinfo@physics.orst.edu Website: http://physics.oregonstate.edu |
| 3 | Portland State University, Department of Physics Address: 1719 S.W. 10th Avenue, Room 128, Portland, OR 97201 Phone: (503) 725-3812 Email: physics@pdx.edu Website: http://physics.pdx.edu |
Oregon’s population
Over 3,870,000 people live in Oregon (the twenty-seventh most populous state in the United States). The average population density in the state is about 15.6 people per km 2 (39th place in the USA).
The largest cities in Oregon are Portland (more than 580,000 residents, twenty-ninth in the list of the largest cities in the United States), Eugene (about 160,000 residents) and the state capital of Salem (Salem, about 155,000 residents). All of them are located in the Willamette Valley region, where most of the state’s residents live.
The largest urban agglomeration in the state of Oregon was formed around Portland (about 2,230,000 people, the twenty-third place in the list of US metropolitan areas and more than half of the residents of Oregon), and it includes the settlements of the neighboring state of Washington. About 400,000 people live in the Salem agglomeration, more than 350,000 people live in Eugene.
The racial composition of the population of Oregon:
- White – 84.2%
- Blacks (African Americans) – 1.8%
- Asians – 3.7%
- Native Americans (Indians or Eskimos of Alaska) – about 1.4%
- Native Hawaiian or Oceanian – about 0.3%
- Other races – 5.4%
- Two or more races – 3.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (of any race) – about 11.8%
The highest concentration of Hispanic Oregonians is in Malheur County in the southeast of the state (more than 25% of the population).
The largest ethnic (national) groups among the population of Oregon:
- Germans – 22.5%
- English – 14%
- Irish – 13.2%
- Norwegians – 4.1%
- French – 3.9%
- Italians – 3.7%
- Scots – 3.6%
- Swedes – 3.1%
- Dutch – 2.6%
- Poles – 1.9%
- Russians – 1.4%
The largest Oregon populations by religion:
- Christians – about 67%, including:
- Protestants – about 47%, including:
- Evangelists – about 30%
- “Mainline” Protestants – about 16%
- Catholics – about 14%
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) – about 5%
- Protestants – about 47%, including:
- Buddhists – about 2%
- Jews – about 1%
- Muslims – about 0.5%
- Atheists – about 25%
In Oregon, as well as in the Western United States as a whole, there are many more atheists relative to the population than in the United States as a whole. Oregon is home to America’s largest communities of Orthodox Old Believers (descendants of immigrants from Russia).