Donald, Oregon.
Typical home $460,009 (-2.5% in a year). Salem, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,193 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,940 -3%
- $471,949$460,009 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,710 +11%
- $415,299$460,009 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.
- Donald$2,414
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Donald, OR fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Donald, Marion County, Oregon
Donald is a city of 1,009 people in Marion County. Half its households earn more than $80,729 a year and half less, against $77,351 across Marion County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Marion County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Donald is a very small city in Marion County, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home, a much higher share than across most of the country. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and winters are cool and damp, while August brings warm days and the year as a whole is wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Salem Hospital, the Salem-Keizer school district and the Oregon Department of Human Services. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Molalla River, the Pudding River and the Yamhill River are all a short drive away, and Champoeg, an archaeological site, is close by too. For a day out in the city, the Portland Japanese Garden and the Portland Art Museum are a longer drive away.
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- 401households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 175,778 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 56°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aurora State Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marion County
- Oregon Department of Human ServicesExecutive offices, federal, state, and local11,196
- Salem-Keizer SD 24JSchool district5,131FTE
- Salem HospitalGeneral hospital4,683FTE
- Oregon Health AuthorityExecutive offices, federal, state, and local3,072
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,462
- Oregon State HospitalPsychiatric hospital2,413FTE
- SH - Building BHospitals, general medical and surgical1,037
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,021
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 386 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 59,745 people in all across the county; Donald has two 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Donald’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 Marion County and the Salem, OR metro.
Donald home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Donald$460,009
- 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 Donald address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Donald — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.