Arch Cape, Oregon.
Typical home $918,890 (+3.3% in a year). Astoria, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,756 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29,161 +3%
- $889,729$918,890 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $148,205 +19%
- $770,685$918,890 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.
- Arch Cape$4,823
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Arch Cape, OR rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arch Cape, Clatsop County, Oregon
The Census does not count Arch Cape on its own, so the figures here are Clatsop County's. Half the county's households earn more than $71,822 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 63% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Clatsop County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Clatsop County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arch Cape is a small coastal town in Clatsop County, in the northwest corner of Oregon. Its residents are older on average than most of the country, and most of the county's adults do not hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and wet, with rain falling through much of the year and very little snow.
Work. Across Clatsop County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well above what is common across the country. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has held steady.
Things to do. Oswald West State Park and Hug Point State Recreation Site are both protected areas in or beside town. Ecola State Park, another protected area, is a short drive away, and Fort Clatsop, a fort, is a longer drive off.
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- 17,984households
- 46.0median age
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Clatsop County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clatsop County had 19,295 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 51° and lows near 38°; warmest in September, with highs near 67° and lows near 50°. About 77 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Seaside weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clatsop County
- Wauna Tissue841
- Columbia Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital566FTE
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters283
- Astoria SD 1School district281FTE
- Pacific Seafood WarrentonFish freezing240
- Providence Seaside HospitalCritical access hospital233FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters217
- Clatsop Community CollegeTwo-year college211
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,045 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- TsunamisVery high
- Coastal floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clatsop County, 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 Clatsop County and the Astoria, OR metro.
Arch Cape home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arch Cape$918,890
- 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.
- Arch Cape6
Zip codes with a Arch Cape address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arch Cape — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Arch Cape
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97138 | Seaside | 11,035 | $1,931 | $505,591 |
| 97102 | Arch Cape | 324 | — | $931,209 |