Metropolitan Area · Oregon, Washington
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Marketing
The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area covers 7 counties and roughly 2,537,904 residents. Search behaviour follows the commute, not the city limit. The market reaches past Portland into Vancouver, Gresham, Hillsboro, and Beaverton, so a business here is usually selling across the whole footprint rather than one city.
On the ground
What the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA market looks like
Across those 7 counties there are 72,964 business establishments and 971 advertising, public relations, and marketing consulting firms. That works out to about 75 businesses for every firm selling marketing services here. Those counts come from the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns and are reported at metropolitan-area level, not city level.
- Metro population
- 2,537,904
- Business establishments
- 72,964
- Counties
- 7
- Cities covered
- 29
Depth where it matters
Industries in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area
Each of these has a page covering how buyers in that category search here. Establishment counts are from County Business Patterns and cover the whole metro.
Restaurant
2,439 establishments across the metro.
Real Estate
1,858 establishments across the metro.
Home Improvement
1,542 establishments across the metro.
Law Firms
1,446 establishments across the metro.
Dental
1,215 establishments across the metro.
Insurance
1,029 establishments across the metro.
Lawn & Garden
972 establishments across the metro.
Senior Living
914 establishments across the metro.
Also covered in this market
Why us
What sets AdsTalent apart here
Coverage is organized around the market rather than a single city, because that is how customers actually move through it. A business in this area is usually selling across the whole footprint, so the plan has to think that way: local search presence in every community that matters, paid search scoped to a real service area, and a site answer engines can read cleanly.
Across our network
AdsTalent and our partner network bring two decades of small-business digital marketing across every major channel: SEO, paid search, paid social, email, reputation, and conversion optimization.
Coverage
Cities we serve in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area
29 cities covered across 7 counties.
Questions
Common questions about the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA market
- What areas does the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA market cover?
- The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area is a federally defined metropolitan statistical area covering 7 counties and about 2,537,904 residents. AdsTalent covers 29 cities within it, including Portland, Vancouver, Gresham, Hillsboro, and Beaverton.
- How many businesses are in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area?
- There are 72,964 business establishments across the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metropolitan area, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns. That figure counts establishments, not employees, and covers the full 7-county area rather than the city of Portland alone.
- How competitive is marketing in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area?
- The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area has 971 advertising, public relations, and marketing consulting firms serving 72,964 business establishments, or roughly 75 businesses per firm. Markets with more businesses per firm are generally less contested in local search, though competition varies by industry.
- Which industries does AdsTalent work with in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area?
- Every industry with a real presence in the market. The largest here include restaurant (2,439 establishments), real estate (1,858 establishments), and home improvement (1,542 establishments). Each has its own page covering how buyers in that category search locally.
- Does AdsTalent work with businesses outside Portland?
- Yes. Coverage is organized around the whole Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA market rather than one city, because a business here typically draws customers from across the metro. Work is handled remotely, with no requirement to meet in person.
- Where do the market figures on this page come from?
- Business establishment counts come from the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns, population from the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program, and the metropolitan-area definition from the Office of Management and Budget's core based statistical area delineations. All three are public federal sources.
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