Gold Beach is a very small coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 2,327 people and two associated neighborhoods, Gold Beach is the 138th largest community in Oregon.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 18.42% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Gold Beach has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Gold Beach has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gold Beach than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gold Beach may be for you.

Gold Beach is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

One of the benefits of Gold Beach is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.91 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

The percentage of adults in Gold Beach who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.09% of the adults in Gold Beach have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gold Beach in 2022 was $32,547, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,188 for a family of four. However, Gold Beach contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gold Beach is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gold Beach home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gold Beach residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Gold Beach also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.63% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gold Beach include German, English, Irish, European, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Gold Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.