About Wilsonville
Located at the southernmost end of the Portland metropolitan area, Wilsonville is the gateway to the verdant Willamette Valley. Once a small farming community, Wilsonville is now a thriving city of more than 26,000 residents who enjoy the small-town charms of ‘country living’ just 17 miles from downtown Portland.
Wilsonville sits on the north bank of the Willamette River, offering easy access for recreational boaters, canoers and kayakers as well as proximity to the valley’s abundance of award-winning wineries. World-class natural getaways – Mount Hood, the Columbia River Gorge, ocean beaches – all await within a two-hour drive.
Adjacent Interstate 5, Wilsonville is a business-friendly community that provides an attractive location for manufacturers and distributors. The City’s considerable weekday workforce also supports high tech industries, family-owned companies and several local and national retailers.
South Metro Area Regional Transit (SMART) provides free bus rides to all passengers within city limits. The City’s independent transit operator provides 300,000 passenger trips annually, including low-cost service to Portland, Canby, Salem and Tualatin. Wilsonville is also served by TriMet’s Westside Express Service (WES) Commuter Rail, which connects passengers with buses and trains serving Beaverton, Hillsboro, downtown Portland and Portland International Airport (PDX).
Boasting a low crime rate and one of Oregon’s best public school systems, Wilsonville offers an array of housing choices to appeal to people at every stage of life. Beyond multi-family dwellings and traditional single-family homes, Wilsonville has a golf course community (Charbonneau) and a European-style urban village (Villebois) that earned a national design award. The brand-new Frog Pond West neighborhood played host to the 2019 NW Natural Street of Dreams.
With 15 parks located on more than 200 acres of City property, Wilsonville residents enjoy ample opportunity to enjoy outdoor recreation. Water features at the City’s two signature downtown parks provide regional cooling-off destinations during the summer event season, which also includes outdoor movies, a concert series, a beer festival, an arts festival and a cycling race. Local attractions include horse shows, agri-tourism, antiquing, the Korean War Memorial and the 250-acre Grahams Oaks Nature Park.
The city maintains an acclaimed public library with more than 100,000 volumes and daily learning programs for all ages, and is home to two institutes of higher-learning, Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) and a branch of Clackamas Community College.
