Drunkest City in Oregon

Saturday, December 05, 2015

Which town in Oregon gets the most drunk? A new study evaluated numbers like the percentage of adults that are binge drinker and the percent that die in alcohol related deaths. For a state that crows about its wine, craft beer and emerging whiskey industry, the downside is alcohol abuse.

The data crunched by Wall Street 24/7 finds the the Portland DMA is the drunkest.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office arrested 80 impaired drivers in the month of November alone. Of those, 15 were arrested during the Thanksgiving weekend reporting period. Seven of these were drug related.

The Office claim to adhere to a strict no-tolerance approach to impaired drivers that continue to threaten the public's safety. The Sheriff's Office arrests about 1,000 impaired drivers each year.

Here are the numbers from Wall Street 24/7

Oregon
> Drunkest city: Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro
> Pct of MSA adults binge or heavy drinking: 17.1%
> Pct. of state adults binge or heavy drinking: 16.0%
> Pct of driving deaths alcohol related: 33.4%

As in a number of other metro areas reporting a state’s highest level of excessive drinking, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro residents are relatively healthy. The metro reports fewer years of potential life lost due to premature death than both the state and nation, and residents are also less likely to assess their own health poorly than Oregon residents and Americans. On the other hand, like most metro areas on this list, the share driving fatalities that are tied to alcohol in the Portland area of 33.4% exceeds the national share.

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