Dayton, Oregon.
Typical home $515,409 (-0.9% in a year). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,414 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,725 -1%
- $520,135$515,409 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,546 +12%
- $461,864$515,409 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.
- Dayton$2,705
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Dayton, OR fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dayton, Yamhill County, Oregon
Dayton is a city of 2,678 people in Yamhill County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Yamhill County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dayton is a small city in Yamhill County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns the home they live in, a much higher share than is usual across the county. Homes are fairly costly for the area, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and wet, with the coldest days in December, and summers are warm, peaking in August, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing and government. Across Yamhill County, George Fox University, McMinnville SD 40 and Newberg SD 29J are among the largest workplaces. The county has added jobs over the past year, though unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier. Commutes run longer than many people expect from a small town, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Courthouse Square Park is in or beside town, and Palmer Creek runs close by. A short drive away you will find Champoeg, an archaeological site, and the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. For a longer outing, Portland Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 784households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yamhill County had 39,978 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 52°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mcminnville Municipal Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yamhill County
- George Fox UniversityUniversity or college1,011
- McMinnville SD 40School district812FTE
- Newberg SD 29JSchool district579FTE
- Linfield UniversityUniversity or college556
- Alliance ServicesSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities452
- Empwr, USAMisc food450
- Providence Newberg Medical CenterGeneral hospital392FTE
- Cascade Steel Rolling MillsHot-rolling iron or steel products in iron and steel mills385
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,636 people in all across the county; Dayton has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dayton’s 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 Yamhill County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Dayton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dayton$515,409
- 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.
- Dayton16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dayton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dayton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.