Halfway, Oregon.
Typical home $327,852 (+2.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$618 (+56%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $8,099 +3%
- $319,754$327,852 since Sep 2025
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.
- Halfway$1,721
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Halfway, OR rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Halfway, Baker County, Oregon
Halfway is a city of 351 people in Baker County. Half its households earn more than $38,654 a year and half less, against $60,936 across Baker County. Unemployment in Baker County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Baker 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Halfway is a very small city in Baker County, Oregon, with few people living in it. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and the typical home is valued well above what a household here earns in a year. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly hot in July, with a fair amount of precipitation falling across the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and government. Across Baker County, the largest workplaces include Baker SD 5J, Marvin Wood Products - Baker City and Safeway. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The Powder River and Eagle Creek are both rivers a short drive away. For a longer outing, Wallowa Lake State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Ferguson Ridge Ski Area is a ski area, also a longer drive away. Roger Lake is another lake that takes a longer drive to reach.
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What people in Baker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Baker County had 5,635 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 52°. About 62 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Halfway weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baker County
- Baker SD 5JSchool district470FTE
- Marvin Wood Products - Baker CityCut stock, resawing lumber, and planing174
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores155
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture118
- Saint Alphonsus Medical Center BakerCritical access hospital112FTE
- Behlen Mfg. CoTractors and attachments, lawn and garden-type, manufacturing81
- Natural StructuresFabricated plate work manufacturing58
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores56
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 888 people in all across the county; Halfway has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Halfway’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 Baker County.
Halfway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Halfway$327,852
- 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.
- Halfway7
Zip codes with a Halfway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Halfway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.