Gold Hill, Oregon
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Gold Hill, Oregon

Gold Hill is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, Gold Hill had a population of 1,335. It is along a bend of the Rogue River.

The city's name comes from a nearby hill that was the location of a 19th-century gold discovery, on "Big Bar” on the Rogue River in the early 1850s. In 1852, Colonel William T'Vault and family made a claim, naming it Dardanelles, on the south side of the Rogue. Gold Hill became a boomtown overnight after time it became well known as pocket gold county. Seasoned prospectors specialized in placer mining from rivers, creeks, and streams. Gold Hill became world famous for its production of cement from area limestone deposits.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.77 square miles (1.99 km2), all of it land.

Gold Hill lies east of the city of Rogue River and northwest of Central Point and Medford along Interstate 5 and Oregon Route 99 in the Rogue River Valley. Gold Hill is connected to Shady Cove to the northeast by Oregon Route 234.

As of the 2020 census, Gold Hill had a population of 1,335. The median age was 41.7 years. 20.1% of residents were under the age of 18 and 20.7% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 102.9 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 96.7 males age 18 and over.

94.4% of residents lived in urban areas, while 5.6% lived in rural areas.

There were 543 households in Gold Hill, of which 28.7% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 42.4% were married-couple households, 20.1% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 28.2% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 24.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

There were 578 housing units, of which 6.1% were vacant. Among occupied housing units, 69.2% were owner-occupied and 30.8% were renter-occupied. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.5% and the rental vacancy rate was 5.6%.

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