Fairview, Oregon.
Typical home $470,171 (-1.1% in a year), asking rent $1,668 (-4.0%). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,161 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,364 -1%
- $475,535$470,171 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,385 +6%
- $443,786$470,171 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.
- Fairview$2,468
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 60 years.
Typical home values in Fairview, OR fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fairview, OR fell 4.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fairview runs $1,679/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,755 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,347 a month against $1,668 rent: a $2,468 mortgage payment, plus $376 property tax and $503 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fairview
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$3,347
- Renting$1,668
- Mortgage only$2,468
Property tax · $376/mo 0.96% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Multnomah County, OR
Insurance & upkeep · $503/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 Fairview, Multnomah County, Oregon
Fairview is a city of 10,424 people in Multnomah County. Half its households earn more than $70,107 a year and half less, against $88,766 across Multnomah County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 43% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 57% are rented. Unemployment in Multnomah County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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. Fairview is a small city in Multnomah County, on the eastern edge of the Portland area. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than a typical household would expect, while most homes are rented rather than lived in by their owners. A smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and winters are cool and damp, with summers that turn warm in August.
Work. Many residents work in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in the building trades. The largest workplaces in Fairview include Reynolds SD 7, the school district, along with Target and Amazon. Across Multnomah County there are slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. The closest of the places worth knowing is Leach Botanical Garden, a botanical garden a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Multnomah Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the region, and to the Portland Japanese Garden. The Willamette River, also a longer drive away, offers a wide stretch of river to walk beside.
Report a mistake
- 4,530households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Multnomah County had 494,307 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer 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, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fairview
- Reynolds SD 7School district1,438FTE
- Communications Test Design Inc. (22638)Warehouse testing, logistics and repair193
- Moore ExcavationConstruction management, water and sewer line184
- TargetDiscount department stores178
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services151
- Alfa LavalHeat exchanger manufacturer80
- Knight TransportationGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload71
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,006 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold 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 Fairview’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Multnomah County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Fairview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairview$470,171
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fairview 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.
- Fairview39.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fairview27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fairview9
Zip codes with a Fairview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.