Alsea, Oregon.
Typical home $462,594 (+0.3% in a year). Corvallis, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,175 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,556 +0%
- $461,038$462,594 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,992 +10%
- $419,602$462,594 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.
- Alsea$2,428
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Alsea, OR rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alsea, Benton County, Oregon
Alsea, in Benton County, had 165 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Benton County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Benton County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alsea is a very small community in Benton County, Oregon, with a population that stays well under what most people would call a town. Winters are cold and wet, with the coldest weather in December, and snow is rare. Rain and melted snow add up to a great deal over the year, far more than in much of the country, and summers are mild and pleasant rather than hot. Typical home values here are higher than many people expect for a place this size.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Benton County, some of the largest workplaces are Oregon State University, Good Samaritan Hospital Corvallis and HP. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. The South Fork and North Fork of the Alsea River run in or beside town, and the Alsea River itself is a short drive away. Alsea Falls, a waterfall, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, Siuslaw National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 3%below the poverty line
What people in Benton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benton County had 38,560 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 76° and lows near 50°. About 1 inches of snow and 92 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alsea Fh (fall Creek) weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benton County
- Oregon State UniversityUniversity or college6,833
- Good Samaritan Hospital CorvallisGeneral hospital1,931FTE
- HPWorkstations, computer, manufacturing1,024
- Corvallis SD 509JSchool district804FTE
- Trillium Family ServicesMental health facilities, residential338
- Philomath SD 17JSchool district227FTE
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters204
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores164
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 67 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,460 people in all across the county; Alsea has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alsea’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Benton County and the Corvallis, OR metro.
Alsea home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alsea$462,594
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alsea7
Zip codes with a Alsea address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alsea — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.