Brownsville, Oregon.
Typical home $438,163 (+0.6% in a year). Albany-Lebanon, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,231 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,663 +1%
- $435,500$438,163 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,988 +15%
- $382,175$438,163 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.
- Brownsville$2,300
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Brownsville, OR rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brownsville, Linn County, Oregon
Brownsville is a city of 1,694 people in Linn County. Half its households earn more than $83,098 a year and half less, against $76,329 across Linn County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Linn County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brownsville is a small city in Linn County, Oregon, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run above the county's, and poverty is somewhat less common than you might expect. Winters are cool, with December the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and other services. Across Linn County, some of the largest workplaces are Samaritan Albany General Hospital, Linn-Benton Community College and Target. The typical commute is fairly long, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the John M. Moyer House is a museum. Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site, a protected area, is a short drive away. For time by the water, the Calapooia River and the Santiam River are both a longer drive away.
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- 797households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Linn County had 48,405 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 86° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lebanon weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Linn County
- TargetDiscount department stores1,315
- ATI - Millersburg OperationsPlatinum refining, primary1,085
- Samaritan Albany General HospitalGeneral hospital896FTE
- Linn-Benton Community CollegeTwo-year college739
- SelmetTitanium castings, unfinished, manufacturing700
- Lebanon Community SD 9School district592FTE
- Samaritan Lebanon Comm HospitalCritical access hospital554FTE
- Halsey Tissue422
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 132 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,376 people in all across the county; Brownsville has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brownsville’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 Linn County and the Albany-Lebanon, OR metro.
Brownsville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brownsville$438,163
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Brownsville 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.
- Brownsville21.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brownsville22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Brownsville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brownsville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.