Clackamas, Oregon.
Typical home $576,536 (-0.3% in a year), asking rent $1,742 (+1.3%). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,479 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,871 -0%
- $578,407$576,536 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,783 +9%
- $528,753$576,536 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.
- Clackamas$3,026
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Clackamas, OR fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Clackamas, OR rose 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Clackamas runs $2,308/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,445 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,050 a month against $1,742 rent: a $3,026 mortgage payment, plus $407 property tax and $617 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Clackamas
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$4,050
- Renting$1,742
- Mortgage only$3,026
Property tax · $407/mo 0.85% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Clackamas County, OR
Insurance & upkeep · $617/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 Clackamas, Clackamas County, Oregon
The Census does not count Clackamas on its own, so the figures here are Clackamas County's. Half the county's households earn more than $103,517 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% 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 people in Clackamas County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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. Clackamas is a community in Clackamas County, Oregon, on the southeastern side of the Portland area. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and wet, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work across schools, hospitals and social care, shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Clackamas County, unemployment is lower than a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a notable share of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Clackamas River, a river a short drive away, suits an outdoor afternoon. The Portland Art Museum, a museum a short drive away, offers time indoors. Multnomah Falls, a waterfall a longer drive away, makes a good day trip.
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- 163,845households
- 42.3median age
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What people in Clackamas County 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 84° and lows near 58°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oregon City weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clackamas County
- Clackamas CountyGeneral public administration2,659
- North Clackamas SD 12School district1,875FTE
- Kaiser Sunnyside Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,720FTE
- West Linn-Wilsonville SD 3JSchool district1,144FTE
- Fred Meyer StoresGeneral warehouse and storage895
- Lake Oswego SD 7JSchool district887FTE
- Oregon City SD 62School district858FTE
- Clackamas Community CollegeTwo-year college776
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 408 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 47,277 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clackamas County, 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 Clackamas County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Clackamas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clackamas$576,536
- 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 Clackamas listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Clackamas32.81%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Clackamas58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Clackamas13
Zip codes with a Clackamas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clackamas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.