Community Highlights:

Besides being an all around great place to live and raise a family, Corvallis is an hour from the Pacific coast, two hours from skiing and just over an hour to the Portland metro area. Corvallis’ unique placement and creative people keep the community engaged and the hard work has paid off in numerous national awards.

• Expansion Magazine 2005 – 5-Star rating for Knowledge Workers
• Expansion Magazine 2005 – 5th Top Metros for PhD per capita
• Rise of the Creative Class 2005 – 7th most creative place to live for cities under 250,000
• Cities Ranked and Rated 2004 – 10th best place to live in the US
• Harvard Business Review 2004 – 15th most creative city in the US
• National Arbor Day Foundation 2002 Top Tree City
• Orange County Register 2002 – Best Pac-10 Campus
• Hewlett Packard - global research site – birthplace of the HP handheld calculator, $20 billion inkjet technology and “wobblevision”
• Home of Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling
• USA Today 2002 – 4th in the nation for the number of patents issued
• Biz Demographics 2002 – 7th in the nation for great places to do business
• Men's Journal 2001 – 8th in the nation as a great place to live
• Bike USA 2001 – 9th in the nation as a Bicycle Friendly City
• Bike at Work listed Corvallis 9th in the nation as a car free community
• Economist Richard Florida ranks Corvallis in the top 10 for the Most Creative Places to live with less than 250,000 people