Arlington, Oregon.
Typical home $304,103 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$867 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,652 +4%
- $291,451$304,103 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,379 +26%
- $241,724$304,103 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.
- Arlington$1,596
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Arlington, OR rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arlington, Gilliam County, Oregon
Arlington is a city of 628 people in Gilliam County. Half its households earn more than $76,694 a year and half less, against $66,917 across Gilliam County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Gilliam County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gilliam County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arlington is a very small city, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run higher than across Gilliam County as a whole, though a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with only a little snow and not much rain or melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in farming, forestry and mining, with many others in schools, hospitals and social care. Professional and business services and restaurants and hotels also employ local people. Among the biggest workplaces across Gilliam County are the Columbia Ridge Landfill & Recycling Center, M A Mortenson and the Arlington school district. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The John Day River is a river a longer drive away, and Cottonwood Canyon State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive. Lake Umatilla, a reservoir, is another longer drive for time on the water. Each of these trips takes some planning, so they suit a day out more than a quick errand.
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- 274households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Gilliam County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gilliam County had 966 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 63°. About 5 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Arlington weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gilliam County
- Columbia Ridge Landfill & Recycling Center125
- Chem Waste Landfill48
- M A MortensonConstruction44
- Arlington SD 3School district30FTE
- Condon SD 25JSchool district25FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 217 people in all across the county; Arlington has one of its own. School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arlington’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 Gilliam County.
Arlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arlington$304,103
- 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.
- Arlington6
Zip codes with a Arlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Arlington
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97823 | Condon | 1,014 | — | $214,981 |
| 97812 | Arlington | 932 | — | $296,507 |