Central Oregon represented in state’s ’10 luckiest lottery cities’

A Website that creates “bite-sized snacks of shareable information” has compiled a list of the 10 “luckliest cities in Oregon,” based on population and the number of recent big Oregon Lottery winners, and Central Oregon is represented.

HomeSnacks based the report on the number of winning tickets worth over $25,000 per city over the past decade, and drew up the list based on per-capita jackpots, based on population size. They also gave heavier weight to bigger wins.

It comes as the multi-state Powerball lottery game reaches a record $675 million for Saturday’s drawing

According to its “scientific data,” these are the 10 luckiest cities in Oregon:

1. Wamic
2. Nehalem
3. Cloverdale
4. La Pine
5. Milwaukie
6. Newport
7. Warrenton
8. Roseburg
9. Lebanon
10 .Prineville

The tiny Wasco County town of Wamic — population 18 — has had three big winners in the past 10 years, though the largest was $65,000. La Pine, population 1,671, has had six, fthe largest $100,000. But Prineville had a $4.4 million winner in 2012.

Read more at from HomeSnacks’ report at their Website.