Cheshire, Oregon.
Typical home $564,795 (+0.9% in a year). Eugene-Springfield, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,429 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,764 +1%
- $560,031$564,795 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,972 +9%
- $519,823$564,795 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.
- Cheshire$2,964
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Cheshire, OR rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cheshire, Lane County, Oregon
Cheshire, in Lane County, had 329 people in the 2020 census. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Lane County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lane 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cheshire is a very small community in Lane County, Oregon, where nearly every home is lived in by its owner and few are rented. Homes here are valued well above what many Oregon towns see, and household incomes in the county sit at a middling level. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect in a county with a large university.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing also employing many. Across Lane County, the largest workplaces include the University of Oregon, the Riverbend hospital and the Eugene school district. The county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment has eased a little compared with this time last year. The typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. The McKenzie River and Fern Ridge Reservoir are both a short drive away, with Fern Ridge Wildlife Area close by for walking and watching birds. The Oregon Air and Space Museum is also a short drive. Winters are cool and wet, with the coldest weather in December, and summers turn warm by August, which suits time on the water.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Lane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lane County had 156,948 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 52°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eugene Mahlon Sweet Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lane County
- University of OregonUniversity or college5,591
- Shmc-riverbendGeneral hospital2,401FTE
- Eugene SD 4JSchool district2,078FTE
- Springfield SD 19School district1,307FTE
- New Horizons - Oregon North - EugeneCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities797
- Lane Community CollegeTwo-year college781
- Mckenzie-willamette HospitalGeneral hospital777FTE
- Bethel SD 52School district759FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 352 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 37,418 people in all across the county; Cheshire has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cheshire’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 Lane County and the Eugene-Springfield, OR metro.
Cheshire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cheshire$564,795
- 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 Cheshire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cheshire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.