Research
Portland, OR — Median Google reviews: 76, below the 132 elsewhere
We measured 75 eye care practices in Portland serving 642,715 residents, and 3 findings stood out against the other markets we measure.
What we set out to measure
Who can examine your eyes here, and who can operate on them?
Every eye care practice below comes from the federal provider registry, counted whether or not it appears in this site’s directory. The findings are what the numbers came back with, not a view we formed first and then looked for support for.
Median Google reviews: 76
That is 56 lower than the 132 typical of the 17 markets we measure nationwide.
The middle number of Google reviews among eye care practices that have any. A low median usually means a market of smaller or newer eye care practices. We could check 76% of Portland eye care practices for this.
Open past 6pm on a weekday: 12%
That is 7 points below the 19% typical of the 18 markets we measure nationwide.
Share of eye care practices whose published hours run past 6pm on at least one weekday, out of the eye care practices whose hours we have on record. Measured over 6 of 52. We could check 69% of Portland eye care practices for this.
Half of all eye care practices sit in 7 of 25 ZIP codes
8 of them are in 97225 alone, out of the 75 we could place.
What this does not tell you
- Provider type comes from the federal registry rather than from what a practice advertises, so a clinic employing both optometrists and ophthalmologists is counted once.
- Nothing here says whether a practice is accepting new patients, how long the wait is, or which vision plans it takes.
- A surgical practice and a single optical shop each count as one.
How this was measured
- What was counted
- 75 eye care practices with a Portland address in the federal provider registry. 75 of them meet this site’s bar to appear in the directory; the findings above are measured over all of them.
- Residents
- 642,715, US Census Bureau acs5-2023.
- Measured
- August 30, 2026. We keep every earlier measurement rather than overwriting it, so a later report can say what changed.
- How complete this is
- 100% of the measures this vertical tracks had enough coverage to report here. The rest are withheld rather than estimated, and are listed on the data page.
- Method version
- 1.0
Where the records come from
- NPPES / NPI Registry — eye-care organizations — 7,415 records, retrieved August 26, 2026.