About Concordia University Portland Oregon

Portland (/ˈpɔːrtlənd/, PORT-lənd) is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the chair of Multnomah County. It is a major harbor in the Willamette Valley region of the Pacific Northwest, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in Northwestern Oregon. As of 2019, Portland had an estimated population of 654,741, making it the 26th most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest after Seattle. Approximately 2.4 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. Its amass statistical area (CSA) ranks 19th-largest with a population of roughly speaking 3.2 million. Approximately 47% of Oregon’s population resides within the Portland metropolitan area.

Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1830s close the fall of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city’s at the forefront economy. At the tilt of the 20th century, the city had a reputation as one of the most dangerous port cities in the world, a hub for organized crime and racketeering. After the city’s economy experienced an industrial boom during World War II, its hard-edged reputation began to dissipate. Beginning in the 1960s, Portland became noted for its growing far along political values, earning it a reputation as a bastion of counterculture.

The city operates similar to a commission-based dispensation guided by a mayor and four commissioners as skillfully as Metro, the deserted directly elected metropolitan planning running in the United States. Portland was the first city to execute a combined plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. In 2018, a national survey ranked Portland as the 10th greenest city in the nation. Its climate is marked by warm, dry summers and cool, rainy winters. This climate is ideal for growing roses, and Portland has been called the “City of Roses” for over a century.