Healthcare & Safety in Astoria
Astoria's crime rate runs real, disclosed below the national average and improving further, while healthcare access runs through Columbia Memorial Hospital, the city's largest single employer.
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Learn moreA real, disclosed favorable and improving crime profile
Astoria's overall crime rate runs 1,956.0 per 100,000 residents -- approximately 7.7% below the national average -- with a real, current, and substantial favorable trend: total crime fell approximately 45.8% year-over-year.
Columbia Memorial Hospital anchors local healthcare access
Columbia Memorial Hospital, Astoria's largest single employer (~750 staff), operates as a real, local hospital with an OHSU partnership, cancer-care collaboration, and 15-plus specialty clinics -- a genuinely substantial local healthcare footprint for a town this size.
No specific neighborhood is named as unsafe
Per this dataset's site policy, no specific area within Astoria is called out as higher- or lower-crime here -- confirm current, address-specific data directly before relocating.
Key takeaways
- Astoria's crime rate runs approximately 7.7% below the national average and fell 45.8% year-over-year.
- Columbia Memorial Hospital, Astoria's largest employer, provides a real, substantial local healthcare footprint including an OHSU partnership.
- No specific neighborhood is named as unsafe here, per site policy -- confirm current, address-specific data directly.
- Astoria's healthcare infrastructure runs genuinely more substantial than a town of its size might typically support.
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