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Explore data from the Oregon Health Insurance Survey (OHIS) about health insurance rates by different demographics, reasons people are uninsured, and more. The dashboard was last updated in January 2025 with 2024 survey results. The next update, with 2026 survey results, is expected to occur in January 2027.

To learn more about this data source, read survey methodology, and explore other reports and dashboards, visit the OHIS homepage.

Read the OHIS Coverage Data Brief for key takeaways and summary information.

The Dashboard

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Use the dropdown filters to modify the data. Learn what the filter options mean under "Filters and Terminology" below.
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Filters and Terminology

​Statewide rates represent all people in Oregon. The Oregon Health Insurance Survey results are designed to represent Oregon's non-institutionalized population. This means people who live in group homes, nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, long-term care arrangements, mental hospitals, prisons, jails, correctional institutions, and other similar types of congregate living arrangements are not included in the survey sample or represented in the final estimates.​

All people in Oregon by the primary type of health insurance coverage they had for the whole of the previous year. People can have more than one type of health coverage, but these data assign one primary coverage type.
  • Group: Health insurance coverage obtained through someone's work, union, association or trust; Cobra or state continuation; Veteran's Affairs, Military Health, TRICARE or CHAMPUS; or a student health insurance program. This category also includes around 300,000 insured through the Public Employees- and Oregeon Educators Benefit Boards (PEBB/OEBB)​​
  • Individual: Coverage bought directly by the respondent or another person. Includes plans bought on the Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace, through a broker, or directly from an insurance provider. 
  • Medicare: Coverage for adults ages 65 years and older and for individuals with disabilities. This category is for Medicare medical programs only. 
  • Medicaid: A federal health insurance program that’s administered by states. Oregon's Medicaid program is called the Oregon Health Plan (OHP).
  • Uninsured: People who do not have any type of health insurance coverage.  
  • Unknown: In some years, survey respondents indicated that they had health insurance but could not identify the type of coverage. 
​NOTE: Indian Health Services (IHS) is not considered as health insurance. ​If a person only has IHS coverage, they are counted as uninsured. If a person has IHS coverage and another type of insurance coverage, they are counted in the other type of coverage.

Adults ages 18 and older who are: 
  • Employed: by someone else or the military. 
  • Unemployed: unemployed and looking for work.
  • Out of labor force: those who are unpaid workers on a family business or farm; are unemployed and not looking for work; are retired; are unable to work due to a disability; are keeping house; or are going to school.
  • Self employed​ 

All people by family size and annual family income in groups as defined. The income eligibility limit for adults ages 19 and older to receive Medicaid (Oregon Health Plan) benefits is 138% of the federal poverty level.​

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There are many definitions of and ways to measure disability. REALD disability questions are based on functional limitations. There are nine disability questions reflecting the great diversity among people with disabilities in type of limitation(s), age when they acquired their limitation(s), and other identities that can compound the impact of their disability.

  • Vision only: People ​who reported being blind or having serious difficulty seeing, even when wearing glasses
  • Hearing only: Members who reported being deaf or having serious difficulty hearing
  • Mobility only: People who reported having serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs (ages 5 and older)
  • Communication only: People who reported having serious difficulty communicating (understanding or being understood by others) using their usual (customary) language (ages 5 and older)
  • Cognitive only: People who reported having serious difficulty remembering, concentrating or making decisions because of a physical, mental or emotional condition (ages 5 and older)
  • Learning only: People who reported having serious difficulty learning how to do things most people their age can learn (ages 5 and older)​
  • Mental health only: People who reported having serious difficulty with mood, intense feelings, controlling their behavior, or experiencing delusions or hallucinations (ages 15 and older)
  • Independent living only: People who reported having difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor's office or shopping because of a physical, mental or emotional condition (ages 15 and older)
  • Self care only: People who reported having difficulty bathing or dressing (ages 5 and older)

A disability experience flag is used in the OHIS dashboards as follows:

1 disability: People who reported having only one of the above functional limitations

2+ disabilities: People who reported having more than one of the above functional limitations

Non-disabled: People who answered one or more of the REALD disability questions but did not report any functional limitation​​


​The gender a survey respondent identifies. In 2017-2024 the OHIS included additional response options for gender identities beyond male/man/boy or female/woman/girl. Additional response options are combined in the "Gender Other​" group to allow for reporting small numbers and align reporting over the years. (Note: Missing, don't know, refused, and blank responses were excluded from analyses.)​

The additional response options for gender in 2024 are: Non-binary; Agender, No gender; Questioning; Exploring; and unlisted written-in responses. Documentat​ion of the response options prior to 2024 is available on request. 

​​Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) questions are used under the direction and guidance of OHA's Equity and Inclusion Division​. Visit the REAL-D and SOGI website​ for more information. The 2024 OHIS collected complete REAL-D and SOGI d​ata.

Race and ethnicity is counted using the “least common race” methodology: If a person selects more than one race or ethnicity, they are asked if they identify one as their primary race or ethnicity. Then: 
  • If a primary is selected, the person is counted in that group. 
  • If a primary is not selected, then a hierarchy based on the size of the communities from smallest to largest is used to determine which category the person is counted in, based on the categories they selected. The hierarchy of races is: Middle Eastern or North African, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino/a/x, White, and Other. 
  • ​Missing, don't know, refused, and blank responses were excluded from analysis.​
  • Note: ​In 2017 and 2019, Middle Eastern and North African was not included as a response option. 

"Least common race" is a method recommended by OHA's Equity and Inclusion Division. The primary race methodology is useful to present unduplicated percent estimates in Oregon over several years of data collection. 

OHA's Equity and Inclusion Division provides expertise and guidance on collection and reporting on Race, Ethnicity, Language and Disability (REAL-D) and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data. Visit the REAL-D and SOGI website​ for more information. Beginning in 2023, OHIS collected complete REAL-D and SOGI data.​​

General Information

You can get data from this display in other languages, large print, braille or a format you prefer. Contact Coverage.Analytics@oha.oregon.gov​.


January 13, 2025: OHIS Coverage dashboard release with results from 2011-2024. Update and redesign.



​Download the data (Excel)​ from the OHIS Coverage Dashboard.

Oregon Health Insurance Survey Program. (2024). Coverage Dashboard. Interactive display accessed [MM/DD/YYYY]. Salem, OR: Oregon Health Authority. 
https://www.oregon.gov/oha/HPA/ANALYTICS/Pages/ohis-coverage.aspx