Gates, Oregon.
Typical home $464,898 (+4.3% in a year). Albany-Lebanon, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,293 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,122 +4%
- $445,776$464,898 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,980 +13%
- $412,918$464,898 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.
- Gates$2,440
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Gates, OR rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gates, Linn County, Oregon
Gates is a city of 548 people in Linn County. Half its households earn more than $65,670 a year and half less, against $76,329 across Linn County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Linn County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Linn County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gates is a very small city on the North Santiam River, and its residents are older than in most American towns. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and typical home values are high. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect from the home values. Winters are cold and damp, with a little snow, and summers are warm. A great deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and a fair number work from home. Across Linn County, large workplaces include Samaritan Albany General Hospital, Linn-Benton Community College and Selmet, a titanium castings manufacturer. Unemployment in the county is lower than a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The Santiam State Forest lies in or beside town, and the North Santiam State Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away. Henline Falls, a waterfall, and the Little North Santiam River are also a short drive from town. Detroit Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive for those who want a day by the water.
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- 213households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 12%work from home
What people in Linn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Linn County had 48,405 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 56°. About 10 inches of snow and 94 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Detroit Dam weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Linn County
- TargetDiscount department stores1,315
- ATI - Millersburg OperationsPlatinum refining, primary1,085
- Samaritan Albany General HospitalGeneral hospital896FTE
- Linn-Benton Community CollegeTwo-year college739
- SelmetTitanium castings, unfinished, manufacturing700
- Lebanon Community SD 9School district592FTE
- Samaritan Lebanon Comm HospitalCritical access hospital554FTE
- Halsey Tissue422
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 132 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,376 people in all across the county; Gates has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gates’ 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 Linn County and the Albany-Lebanon, OR metro.
Gates home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gates$464,898
- 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.
- Gates6
Zip codes with a Gates address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gates — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.