Gaston, Oregon.
Typical home $658,507 (+0.9% in a year). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,792 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,857 +1%
- $652,650$658,507 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $64,241 +11%
- $594,266$658,507 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.
- Gaston$3,456
- 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 Gaston, OR rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gaston, Washington County, Oregon
Gaston is a city of 676 people in Washington County. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gaston is a very small city in Washington County, Oregon, home to fewer people than most towns on the map. Homes here are worth a good deal more than a typical American house, though the county's household incomes are high as well. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than you might expect for this part of the Portland area. Winters are cool and wet, with little snow, and summers are warm without being hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Intel, Nike World Headquarters and the Beaverton school district. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Commutes here run longer than is typical, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The nearest well-known places all lie a longer drive away, mostly in and around Portland. The Portland Japanese Garden is a garden to wander, and the Portland Art Museum is a museum with a broad collection. The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is another museum, and the Willamette River is the major river that runs through the region.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Washington County 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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- IntelSemiconductor devices manufacturing12,516
- Nike World HeadquartersCorporate offices11,177
- Beaverton SD 48JSchool district4,504FTE
- Providence St. Vincent Medical CTRGeneral hospital3,109FTE
- Lam Research Corp. Tualatin CampusSemiconductor making machinery manufacturing2,798
- Hillsboro SD 1JSchool district2,572FTE
- Tigard-Tualatin SD 23JSchool district1,465FTE
- IntelSemiconductor devices manufacturing1,267
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 610 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 103,758 people in all across the county; Gaston has one 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Gaston’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 Washington County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Gaston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gaston$658,507
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Gaston 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.
- Gaston20.34%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gaston26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gaston7
Zip codes with a Gaston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gaston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.