Astoria, Oregon.
Typical home $484,643 (+0.9% in a year), asking rent $1,648 (+2.3%). Astoria, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,344 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,531 +1%
- $480,112$484,643 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,688 +14%
- $426,954$484,643 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.
- Astoria$2,544
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Astoria, OR rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Astoria, OR rose 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Astoria runs $1,693/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,854 in Jan 2025.
That is $3,342 a month against $1,648 rent: a $2,544 mortgage payment, plus $279 property tax and $519 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Astoria
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,342
- Renting$1,648
- Mortgage only$2,544
Property tax · $279/mo 0.69% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Clatsop County, OR
Insurance & upkeep · $519/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon
Astoria is a city of 10,181 people in Clatsop County. Half its households earn more than $68,007 a year and half less, against $71,822 across Clatsop County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Astoria is a small city on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, close to where it meets the Pacific. Residents are somewhat older than in much of the country, and more homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renting is common too. Incomes run below the county's, and winters are cool and wet rather than harsh, with summers that stay mild; rain and melted snow add up to a great deal over the year, more than in many parts of the country.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with some in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Astoria are Columbia Memorial Hospital, the Astoria school district and Clatsop Community College. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home. Across Clatsop County, unemployment has eased a little compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs has stayed about level.
Things to do. The Columbia River Maritime Museum is in town, and so is the Oregon Film Museum, a short walk from the waterfront. A short drive away, Fort Clatsop is part of Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, and Fort Stevens is another fort worth the trip. The Lewis and Clark River and the Youngs River run in or beside town for anyone who likes to be near the water.
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- 4,463households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents 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 49° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 69° and lows near 54°. About 70 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Astoria Regional Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Astoria
- Columbia Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital566FTE
- Astoria SD 1School district281FTE
- Clatsop Community CollegeTwo-year college211
- Clatsop Care Center Health DistrictSkilled nursing facilities155
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores118
- Fort George Brewery + Public HouseFull service restaurants104
- Clatsop County - AdministrationExecutive offices94
- Clatsop County - Sheriff's Office - JailCorrectional institutions44
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 689 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Astoria’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 Clatsop County and the Astoria, OR metro.
Astoria home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Astoria$484,643
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Astoria listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 days — 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.
- Astoria28.71%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Astoria91
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Astoria21
Zip codes with a Astoria address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Astoria — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.