Bly, Oregon.
Typical home $192,115 (-5.2% in a year). Klamath Falls, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$508 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,553 -5%
- $202,668$192,115 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $2,169 +1%
- $189,946$192,115 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.
- Bly$1,008
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bly, OR fell 5.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bly, Klamath County, Oregon
Bly, in Klamath County, had 207 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Klamath County was 6.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Klamath County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bly is a very small community in Klamath County, Oregon, with few residents and the kind of quiet that comes with it. Homes here are priced well below what is typical in much of the country, and household incomes across the county sit below the national middle. Winters are cold and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Klamath County, some of the largest workplaces are SKY Lakes Medical Center, Klamath County Schools and Oregon Institute of Technology. Job numbers across the county have been roughly level over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Mitchell Recreation Area is a park a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Gerber Reservoir, a reservoir, and to Gearhart Mountain Wilderness, a protected area. The Sycan River is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Klamath County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Klamath County had 23,884 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 48°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gerber Dam weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Klamath County
- SKY Lakes Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,281FTE
- Klamath County SDSchool district937FTE
- Oregon Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college623
- Klamath Falls City SchoolsSchool district436FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters416
- Klamath Community CollegeTwo-year college312
- Columbia Forest ProductsHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing287
- New Horizons - Oregon South - Klamath FallsCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities273
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,088 people in all across the county; Bly has one of its own. 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Bly’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 Klamath County and the Klamath Falls, OR metro.
Bly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bly$192,115
- 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.
Zip codes with a Bly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.