Amity, Oregon.
Typical home $589,805 (+1.5% in a year). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,678 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,766 +2%
- $581,039$589,805 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,218 +17%
- $502,588$589,805 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.
- Amity$3,096
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Amity, OR rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Amity, Yamhill County, Oregon
Amity is a city of 1,757 people in Yamhill County. Unemployment in Yamhill County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Amity is a small city in Yamhill County, Oregon, with a young population and a median age on the low side. Homes here cost a good deal, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and damp, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm, peaking in August, with rain and melted snow adding up across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Yamhill County, George Fox University, McMinnville SD 40 and Newberg SD 29J are among the largest workplaces. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs. The typical commute is fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is one of the better known sights nearby, and Willamette Mission State Park offers protected open land to walk. Erratic Rock State Natural Site is another protected area a short drive off. For art, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 677households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yamhill County had 39,978 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 52°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mcminnville Municipal Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yamhill County
- George Fox UniversityUniversity or college1,011
- McMinnville SD 40School district812FTE
- Newberg SD 29JSchool district579FTE
- Linfield UniversityUniversity or college556
- Alliance ServicesSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities452
- Empwr, USAMisc food450
- Providence Newberg Medical CenterGeneral hospital392FTE
- Cascade Steel Rolling MillsHot-rolling iron or steel products in iron and steel mills385
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,636 people in all across the county; Amity has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Amity’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Yamhill County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Amity home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Amity$589,805
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Amity listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Amity27.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Amity29
Zip codes with a Amity address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Amity — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.