Forest Grove, Oregon.
Typical home $516,835 (-1.2% in a year), asking rent $1,789 (+2.9%). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,264 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,330 -1%
- $523,164$516,835 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,864 +5%
- $489,971$516,835 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.
- Forest Grove$2,713
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 65 years.
Typical home values in Forest Grove, OR fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Forest Grove, OR rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Forest Grove runs $1,838/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,081 in Apr 2024.
That is $3,627 a month against $1,789 rent: a $2,713 mortgage payment, plus $361 property tax and $553 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Forest Grove
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$3,627
- Renting$1,789
- Mortgage only$2,713
Property tax · $361/mo 0.84% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Washington County, OR
Insurance & upkeep · $553/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 Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon
Forest Grove is a city of 26,225 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $87,933 a year and half less, against $107,772 across Washington County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Forest Grove was 5.4% in August 2026, and Washington County had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. Forest Grove is a city in Washington County, Oregon, with a younger population than many American towns. Household incomes sit below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than most would expect of the county as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good share of households rent. Winters are cool and wet with very little snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in town are Pacific University, the Forest Grove school district and TTM Technologies North America, a maker of circuit boards. Unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Gales Creek runs in or beside town and is the closest water to explore. A longer drive away, the Willamette River offers riverside time, the Portland Art Museum holds a large collection, and the Portland Japanese Garden is one of the best known gardens in the region. Rain is common through much of the year, so a museum visit can suit a wet day.
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- 8,814households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 302,567 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 54°. About 3 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Forest Grove weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Forest Grove
- Pacific UniversityUniversity or college911
- Forest Grove SD 15School district680FTE
- TTM Technologies North AmericaBare printed circuit board manufacturing647
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores131
- Jennings McCall CenterAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities119
- Pacs GroupSkilled nursing facilities98
- WM of Oregon Washington County95
- Marquis Forest Grove Post Acute RehabSkilled nursing facilities72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,270 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forest Grove’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 Washington County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Forest Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forest Grove$516,835
- 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 Forest Grove listings, and the typical home goes pending in 23 days — 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.
- Forest Grove29.59%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Forest Grove23
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Forest Grove97
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Forest Grove24
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Forest Grove$498,008
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Forest Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forest Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.