The population was 17,107 at the time of the 2020 census, which includes approximately 1,600 people who are incarcerated at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution.

They have established the Wildhorse Resort & Casino and golf course on the reservation to generate revenue for development and welfare.

Founded in 1909 by Clarence, Roy and Chauncey Bishop, the company built upon earlier businesses related to the many sheep ranches in the region.

Both businesses failed to survive, but the Bishops, with the help of a local bond issue, enlarged the mill and improved its efficiency.

The prison also operates a commercial laundry serving customers that include EOCI, the Snake River Correctional Institution, Pendleton High School, a local flour mill, and other entities.

[17] The city was built on both sides of the Umatilla River, which has periodically flooded and caused some damage.

In the beginning, the river was vital as a transportation and trading route for settlers, as well as a water and power source.

Pendleton has a semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSk) with short, cool winters and hot summers.

Past performers have included Maroon 5, Toby Keith, Zac Brown Band, Pitbull, Blake Shelton, and Post Malone.

The museum offers two galleries covering regional and local history as well as a one-room schoolhouse, family cabin, caboose, barn, and signal house.

[30] The Pendleton Farmers' Market operates on Friday evenings from May through October on South Main Street.

[32] The city hosts the annual Oregon School Activities Association 2A basketball tournament at the Pendleton Convention Center.

Civic leaders regard the influx of family and other fans the second-most important boost to the local economy, behind the Round-Up.

[35] Pendleton lies along the Union Pacific Railroad (UP), constructed originally through the area in the 1880s by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company (OR&N).

It reached Umatilla and Wallula in 1881, Pendleton in 1882, and then La Grande, Baker City, and Huntington, where by 1884 it met the UP line from Utah.

[40] KFFX-TV (Fox 11), a television station based in Pendleton, serves a market that also includes the Washington cities of Yakima, Pasco, Richland, and Kennewick.

By 1974, Knopp visited Marikina after Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos declared a nationwide martial law two years prior, and expressed that based on the "excellent peace and order situation" he saw while in the country, the United States could try implementing martial law in towns rampant with violence and crime.

Minamisoma is 16 miles (26 km) north of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which was damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.