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Oatfield is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clackamas County, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area.

The 2020 census counted 13,977 residents in Oatfield, living in 5,294 households, up from 13,415 in 2010, and all of its residents lived in urban areas.

Oatfield is named after Oatfield Road, which runs between Milwaukie and Gladstone, and the road was named for the Oatfield family, well-known pioneers of the area.

Oatfield is bordered by the city of Milwaukie to the northwest, unincorporated Oak Grove to the west, unincorporated Jennings Lodge to the southwest, and the city of Gladstone to the south, with Interstate 205 forming its eastern edge.

Oatfield completely surrounds the small city of Johnson City, and the CDP covers 3.39 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 112 feet.

The median age at the 2020 census was 47.3 years, with 18.0 percent of residents under 18 and 26.0 percent aged 65 or older, making Oatfield notably older than most Portland-area communities.

There were 5,557 housing units in Oatfield at the 2020 census, of which 4.7 percent were vacant, and 56.6 percent of households were married-couple households.

In the 2020 census racial composition, 81.6 percent of Oatfield residents were White and 7.7 percent were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

A 1939 oral history memoir from Minerva Fessing Oatfield, an acquaintance of suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, is held on the Library of Congress website.

Oatfield's verified ZIP code is 97267, and the community's name comes from a pioneer family rather than from any oat farming claim.