Editing Hermiston, Oregon (section)

=== Retail ===
[[File:Former Roemark's Building in Downtown Hermiston.jpg|thumb|Downtown Hermiston]]
Hermiston serves as the retail and services center for much of western Umatilla County,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.hermiston.or.us/sites/hermiston.or.us/files/File/economic-development/2011-CoH-retailanalysis.pdf|title = Hermiston Retail Market Analysis 2011}}</ref> as well as [[Morrow County, Oregon|Morrow County]] and parts of [[Gilliam County, Oregon|Gilliam county]]. Hermiston's Local Trade Area, which describes the area where people will travel to purchase items on a weekly basis, stretches from [[Pendleton, Oregon|Pendleton]] on the East, the [[Columbia River]] to the North, [[Heppner, Oregon|Heppner]] to the South, and Gilliam County to the West. There were 46,000 people living within Hermiston's Local Trade Area based on 2010 U.S. Census data.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.hermiston.or.us/sites/hermiston.or.us/files/File/economic-development/2011-CoH-retailanalysis.pdf|title = Hermiston Retail Market Analysis 2011}}</ref>  Despite a relatively robust local retail & services market, Hermiston experiences significant retail sales leakage to the [[Tri-Cities, Washington|Tri-Cities]] for items purchased on less than a weekly basis. The Tri-Cities, located approximately 30 minutes north of Hermiston in Washington, had a metro-area population of 275,740 as of April 1, 2014, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Washington.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ofm.wa.gov/POP/april1/ofm_april1_population_final.pdf|title=April 1, 2015 Population of Cities Towns and Counties Used for Allocation of Selected State Revenues State of Washington|access-date=March 8, 2016|archive-date=January 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120165945/http://www.ofm.wa.gov/pop/april1/ofm_april1_population_final.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>