Baker City, Oregon.
Typical home $260,512 (-1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$816 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,138 -2%
- $264,650$260,512 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,037 +26%
- $207,475$260,512 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.
- Baker City$1,367
- 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 Baker City, OR fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baker City, Baker County, Oregon
Baker City is a city of 10,099 people in Baker County. Half its households earn more than $61,580 a year and half less, against $60,936 across Baker County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Baker County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baker City is a small city whose residents are a little older than in much of the country, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Incomes run close to the county's, and winters are cold while summers turn warm, with little rain and melted snow across the year. Most people get to work in a short drive.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Baker City are Baker SD 5J, Saint Alphonsus Medical Center Baker and the Forest Service. Joblessness in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few jobs.
Things to do. The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center is a museum a short drive away, and the Baker Municipal Natatorium is in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Anthony Lakes, a ski area, and to Whitman National Forest, a large protected area for getting outdoors.
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- 4,468households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baker County had 5,635 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 37° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 49°. About 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Baker City Municipal Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baker City
- Baker SD 5JSchool district470FTE
- Marvin Wood Products - Baker CityCut stock, resawing lumber, and planing174
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores155
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture118
- Saint Alphonsus Medical Center BakerCritical access hospital112FTE
- Behlen Mfg. CoTractors and attachments, lawn and garden-type, manufacturing81
- Natural StructuresFabricated plate work manufacturing58
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores56
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 861 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Baker City’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Baker County.
Baker City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baker City$260,512
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Baker City listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Baker City34.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Baker City79
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Baker City18
Zip codes with a Baker City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baker City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.