Middle and North Sisters mountains, along with Black Crater
Middle and North Sisters mountains, along with Black Crater

Sisters, the ultimate live-work space

 

If you're looking for a great place to grow your business, you've come to the right place. It's a vibrant community filled with people committed to raising healthy families. Sisters has one of the best-performing school districts in the state. We're a town with the necessary ingredients to grow your business, but we haven't lost our home town feel. Sisters is a quietly emerging economic center for small and mid-sized companies in a broad range of business sectors. 

  •  Technology
  •  Recreation and Resorts
  •  Retail
  •  Nutritional Products
  •  Cosmetics
  •  Specialty Manufacturing
  •  Home Design & Construction
  •  Interior Design
  •  Hospitality
  •  Automotive
  •  Woodworking
  •  Health & Wellness Products and Services
  •  Natural Resource Use and Development
  •  Professional Services

  

Sisters, Oregon is best known for the 1.6 million acres of national forest, 200 lakes, 10,000 foot Cascade Mountain peaks and 500 miles of clear, fast-running trout streams that grace our Central Oregon surroundings.

  

See for yourself, and do it now. Contact us at the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce and schedule a visit. Sisters won't be one of the West's best-kept secrets for long.

 

 

 

Stats and Facts - Sisters, Oregon at a Glance

 

General Information
  • Population: 1,706 (with 10,000 in the trade area)
  • Incorporated: 1946
  • Elevation: 3187
  • Land area: 1.45 sq. miles
  • Density per square mile: 1,048

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    Demographics
  • Median Age: 38.8 years
  • Median HH Income: $40,952
  • Percentage of family households: 66.2
  • Sisters population is higher than state average for Associates Degree and higher

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    Housing
  • Median cost single family: $367,450
  • Rent-single family: $1,000/month

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    Location/Transportation
    Sisters sits at the juncture of Highways 20, 242 and 126, key cross-Cascades route to Eugene, Salem and Portland. Sisters is also proximate to US Highway 97, a north-south artery from Canada to Northern California, and a preferred trucking route.

                                                                                          

    Mileage to:

    Portland, Oregon 
    		 -- 173 miles
    Bend, Oregon 
    		 -- 18 miles
    Seattle, Washington 
    		 -- 328 miles
    Redmond, Oregon 
    		 -- 15 miles
    Salem, Oregon 
    		 -- 103 miles
    Eugene, Oregon 
    		 -- 110 miles

     

    Schools
  • Four Pre-K Schools are available.
  • Sisters Elementary, Sisters Middle School and Sisters High School are all available within the Public School System.
  • Central Oregon Community College and OSU-Cascades Campus are located in Bend (18 miles southeast)

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    Commerce
    Sisters boasts seven different economic sectors including Retail, Tourism, Arts & Culture, Natural Resources & Agribusiness, Light Manufacturing & Industrial, Real Estate & Development and Entrepreneurial. Each of these sectors is well represented and provides the Sisters Country with a well-balanced economic base.

     

    Important Contacts
  • Mayor, Lon Kellstrom 541-480-9975
  • City Manager,Eileen Stein 541-323-5205
  • Planning Director, Eric Porter 541-323-5219
  • County Sheriff 541-549-1762
  • Qwest (Phone) 800-244-1111
  • Bend Broadband 541-382-5551
  • Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce 541-549-0251
  • Sisters Business and Attraction Team (SBART)
    •       -- Mac Hay, Chair 541-595-1802
          -- Jerry Bogart, Vice Chair 541-549-0982
          -- Patty Vandiver 541-771-0931
     


     

       
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    “ "...bird-watchers find both Camp Sherman and Sisters to be paradise. Resident white-headed woodpeckers, red-napped sapsuckers and pygmy nuthatches are regularly spotted." ”
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