Adrian, Oregon.
Typical home $502,129 (+6.1% in a year). Ontario, OR-ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,468 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,872 +6%
- $473,258$502,129 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,753 +12%
- $449,376$502,129 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Adrian$2,636
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Adrian, OR rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Adrian, Malheur County, Oregon
Adrian is a city of 157 people in Malheur County. Unemployment in Malheur County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Malheur County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Adrian is a very small city in the far eastern part of Oregon, in Malheur County near the Idaho line. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes would suggest, since the county's household incomes are modest. Winters are cold, with snow on the ground at times, and summers are hot and dry, with little rain or melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents of Adrian work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, farming, forestry and mining, and shops. Across Malheur County, the largest workplaces include JR Simplot Co, which makes frozen fruit, juice and vegetable products, along with the Ontario school district and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is slightly lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up a little.
Things to do. Fort Boise, a historic fort, and Fort Boise Wildlife Management Area, a protected area, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Owyhee State Park is a protected area built around a large reservoir, and Succor Creek State Natural Area is another protected area that suits a day of walking and looking at the landscape.
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What people in Malheur County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Malheur County had 13,510 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 57°. About 12 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Parma Experiment Station weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Malheur County
- JR Simplot CoFrozen fruit, juice and vegetable manufacturing569
- Ontario SD 8CSchool district381FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters363
- Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - ONTGeneral hospital283FTE
- Treasure Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college283
- Nyssa SD 26School district181FTE
- Vale SD 84School district134FTE
- Americold Logistics, LLC: OntarioRefrigerated warehousing127
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,128 people in all across the county; Adrian has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Adrian’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Malheur County and the Ontario, OR-ID metro.
Adrian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Adrian$502,129
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Adrian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Adrian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.