Damascus, Oregon.
Typical home $663,163 (+0.6% in a year). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,681 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,851 +1%
- $659,312$663,163 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,670 +8%
- $616,493$663,163 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.
- Damascus$3,481
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Damascus, OR rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Damascus, Clackamas County, Oregon
Damascus, in Clackamas County, had 11,050 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $122,500 a year and half less, against $103,517 across Clackamas County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Damascus is a community of people who are, on the whole, older than in most places, and nearly everyone here owns the home they live in. Household incomes run above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and wet, with December the coldest month, while summers are mild and pleasantly warm in August, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing, and professional and business services. In Damascus itself, Safeway is among the largest workplaces, along with Klinger Masonry. Many people commute some distance to their jobs, and a share work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Clackamas River offers a place to be near water, and Leach Botanical Garden is a botanical garden for a quiet walk. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to Multnomah Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the region, and to the Portland Art Museum.
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- 3,802households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%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 46° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 57°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portland Troutdale Airport weather station, 9 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 across the county; Damascus has two of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Damascus’ 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.
Damascus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Damascus$663,163
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Damascus 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.
- Damascus31.74%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Damascus64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Damascus16
Zip codes with a Damascus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Damascus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.