Gervais, Oregon.
Typical home $426,458 (+1.4% in a year). Salem, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,170 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,030 +1%
- $420,429$426,458 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,495 +13%
- $376,963$426,458 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.
- Gervais$2,238
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Gervais, OR rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gervais, Marion County, Oregon
Gervais is a city of 2,595 people in Marion County. Half its households earn more than $83,043 a year and half less, against $77,351 across Marion County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gervais is a small city in Marion County, and nearly all of its homes are lived in by their owners, a far higher share of owner-occupiers than is typical. Residents are younger than in many American towns, and household incomes run above the county's. Winters are cool and wet, with the coldest point of the year in December and only a dusting of snow, while August brings the warmest days of the year, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in farming, forestry and mining. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the commute to work is somewhat long, so many people travel to jobs elsewhere in the county. Across Marion County, some of the largest workplaces are Salem Hospital, the Salem-Keizer school district and the Oregon Department of Human Services.
Things to do. A short drive away, Champoeg is an archaeological site, Willamette Mission State Park is a protected area, and the Oregon Electric Railway Museum is a small museum for those who like trains. The Yamhill River is also a short drive off. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum and the Portland Japanese Garden.
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- 730households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%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 46° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 56°. About 1 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Silverton weather station, 9 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; Gervais 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
- LightningRelatively 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 Gervais’ 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.
Gervais home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gervais$426,458
- 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.
- Gervais10
Zip codes with a Gervais address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gervais — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.