Mission is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Umatilla County,

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, United States. For statistical purposes, the

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has defined Mission as a

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(CDP). The population was 1,019 at the 2000 census. Mission is part of the Pendleton– Hermiston Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Geography

Mission is located on the

Umatilla Indian Reservation The Umatilla Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It was created by The Treaty of 9 June 1855 between the United States and members of the Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes. It lies in north ...

. According to the

, the CDP has a total area of , all land.

Education

The CDP is served by the Pendleton School District.

Demographics

As of the

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

of 2000, there were 1,019 people, 330 households, and 242 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 336 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 22.37%

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, 73.80% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.49% from other races, and 3.14% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 2.65% of the population. There were 330 households, out of which 43.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.8% were

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living together, 26.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.4% were non-families. 22.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.09 and the average family size was 3.56. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 37.8% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 6.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 27 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.2 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $32,500, and the median income for a family was $35,417. Males had a median income of $29,125 versus $24,766 for females. The

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for the CDP was $12,288. About 18.9% of families and 23.3% of the population were below the

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, including 30.0% of those under age 18 and 18.2% of those age 65 or over.

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Oregon Pendleton–Hermiston Micropolitan Statistical Area Unincorporated communities in Umatilla County, Oregon Census-designated places in Umatilla County, Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon