Cascade Locks, Oregon.
Typical home $404,562 (+3.6% in a year). Hood River, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,025 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,893 +4%
- $390,669$404,562 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,922 +12%
- $360,640$404,562 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.
- Cascade Locks$2,123
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Cascade Locks, OR rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cascade Locks, Hood River County, Oregon
Cascade Locks is a city of 1,379 people in Hood River County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Hood River County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hood River County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cascade Locks is a small city on the Columbia River, in Hood River County, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with August the warmest. Typical home values here sit well above what many older homeowners might expect for a town this size.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services close behind. Across Hood River County, some of the largest workplaces are Mount Hood Meadows, Hood River County Schools and Hood River Memorial Hospital. The typical commute is a moderate one, and unemployment across the county is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Cascade Locks and Canal park is in or beside town, and Wahclella Falls, a waterfall, is a short drive away. Beacon Rock State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. Multnomah Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the region, is a longer drive away.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Hood River County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hood River County had 13,859 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cascade Locks weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hood River County
- Mount Hood MeadowsSki resorts without accommodations707
- Hood River County SDSchool district578FTE
- Hood River Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital376FTE
- Cardinal IG0342
- Diamond Fruit GrowersFruit sorting, grading, and packing213
- WalmartDiscount department stores179
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores139
- Turtle Island FoodsTofu manufacturing116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,799 people in all across the county; Cascade Locks has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- WildfireVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cascade Locks’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Hood River County and the Hood River, OR metro.
Cascade Locks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cascade Locks$404,562
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cascade Locks7
Zip codes with a Cascade Locks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cascade Locks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.