Canby, Oregon.
Typical home $586,607 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,035 (+0.6%). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,520 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,471 +2%
- $576,136$586,607 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,730 +10%
- $530,877$586,607 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.
- Canby$3,079
- 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 Canby, OR rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Canby, OR rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Canby runs $2,085/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,156 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,121 a month against $2,035 rent: a $3,079 mortgage payment, plus $414 property tax and $628 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Canby
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$4,121
- Renting$2,035
- Mortgage only$3,079
Property tax · $414/mo 0.85% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Clackamas County, OR
Insurance & upkeep · $628/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 Canby, Clackamas County, Oregon
Canby is a city of 18,171 people in Clackamas County. Half its households earn more than $100,989 a year and half less, against $103,517 across Clackamas County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% 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 construction.
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. Canby is a small city whose residents are older than in many places, and most households own the home they live in. Incomes here run a little below the county's, and homes are priced well above what many people expect from a town this size. Winters are cool and wet, summers are warm, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Canby are Wilson Construction Co, Canby SD 86 and Shimadzu USA Manufacturing. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Molalla River and the Pudding River run in or beside town, and the Clackamas River and the Tualatin River are a short drive away for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to the Portland Japanese Garden, a garden, and the Oregon Zoo.
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- 7,012households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 13%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 47° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 55°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Willamette Experiment Station weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Canby
- Wilson Construction CoSubstation and switching station, power transmission line, construction734
- NW Service Enterprises561990 all other support services650
- Canby SD 86School district567FTE
- Shimadzu USA ManufacturingMass spectrometers manufacturing266
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters238
- Clarios - PortlandStorage battery manufacturing213
- Milwaukee ElectronicsSurface mount machinery for making printed circuit boards manufacturing183
- Marquis Hope VillageNursing homes168
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,528 people in all. School districts come 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Canby’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.
Canby home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Canby$586,607
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Canby listings, and the typical home goes pending in 21 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.
- Canby33.20%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Canby21
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Canby88
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Canby27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Canby$567,147
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Canby address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Canby — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.