Boring, Oregon.
Typical home $713,352 (+1.5% in a year). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,894 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,489 +1%
- $702,863$713,352 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,229 +10%
- $646,124$713,352 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.
- Boring$3,744
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Boring, OR rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boring, Clackamas County, Oregon
Boring, in Clackamas County, had 1,931 people in the 2020 census. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Clackamas County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boring is a small community in Clackamas County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Incomes sit well above what is typical for the country as a whole, and fewer residents live in poverty than you might expect. Winters are cool and wet, with December the coldest month, and summers are mild to warm, with August the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in the building trades. A good number of people work from home, and a fair share of adults hold a four-year degree. Among the larger workplaces in Boring are Western BUS Sales, a bus wholesaler, and Liepold Farms, which grows strawberries.
Things to do. Leach Botanical Garden is a short drive away and is the nearest place on the list to wander and enjoy plants. A longer drive brings you to Multnomah Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the region, and to the Portland Art Museum. The Clackamas River, also a longer drive away, offers time beside the water.
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- 35%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clackamas County had 174,819 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 57°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portland Troutdale Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Boring
- Western BUS SalesBus merchant wholesalers41
- BoringMail and parcel delivery29
- Liepold FarmsStrawberry farming22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 92 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boring’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 Clackamas County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Boring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boring$713,352
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Boring listings — 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.
- Boring36.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Boring21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Boring6
Zip codes with a Boring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boring — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.