Gladstone, Oregon.
Typical home $502,336 (+0.1% in a year), asking rent $1,819 . Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,292 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $313 +0%
- $502,023$502,336 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,949 +8%
- $464,387$502,336 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.
- Gladstone$2,637
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Gladstone, OR rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Owning the typical home in Gladstone runs $1,710/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,920 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,529 a month against $1,819 rent: a $2,637 mortgage payment, plus $354 property tax and $538 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Gladstone
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$3,529
- Renting$1,819
- Mortgage only$2,637
Property tax · $354/mo 0.85% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Clackamas County, OR
Insurance & upkeep · $538/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 Gladstone, Clackamas County, Oregon
Gladstone is a city of 12,017 people in Clackamas County. Half its households earn more than $91,250 a year and half less, against $103,517 across Clackamas County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Clackamas County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Gladstone is a small city in Clackamas County, and its residents tend to be older than in much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though incomes run below the county's and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and damp, with the coldest days in December, and summers are warm in August. Rain and melted snow fall through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in town include Gladstone Schools, Safeway and Avamere, a skilled nursing facility. Many people commute a fairly short way to work, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. The Clackamas River runs in or beside town, and Willamette Falls, a waterfall, is also in or beside town. A short drive away are the Portland Art Museum and Mill Ends Park, a small garden. For a longer outing, Multnomah Falls is a waterfall a longer drive away.
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- 5,097households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clackamas County had 174,819 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 58°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oregon City weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gladstone
- Gladstone SD 115School district196FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores84
- AvamereSkilled nursing facilities72
- Somerset Assisted livingAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities57
- Hawthorn Senior LivingContinuing care retirement communities36
- BnK ConstructionConstruction management, industrial building23
- First Student21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 293 people in all. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gladstone’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 Clackamas County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Gladstone home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gladstone$502,336
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Gladstone listings — 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.
- Gladstone31.35%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gladstone31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gladstone13
Zip codes with a Gladstone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gladstone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.