Halsey, Oregon.
Typical home $392,828 (-1.4% in a year). Albany-Lebanon, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,090 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,416 -1%
- $398,244$392,828 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,883 +13%
- $348,945$392,828 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.
- Halsey$2,062
- 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 Halsey, OR fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Halsey, Linn County, Oregon
Halsey is a city of 962 people in Linn County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Halsey is a small city in Linn County, Oregon, and a small one even by the standards of the county around it. Residents are younger than in many American towns, and a four-year degree is less common here than across the country. Homes cost more than a lot of people might expect for a town this size, and winters are cool and wet rather than harsh, with summers that turn warm in August.
Work. People who live in Halsey work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Linn County, some of the biggest workplaces are Samaritan Albany General Hospital, Linn-Benton Community College and Selmet, which makes titanium castings. Commutes are longer than most, and very few people work from home, so most jobs mean driving out of town. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site, a protected area and historic mill, is a short drive away, and so is the Long Tom River. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to the McKenzie River, or to Hayward Field, a stadium well known for track and field.
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- 441households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 4%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 46° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 51°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corvallis Ssw weather station, 11 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; Halsey 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Halsey’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 Linn County and the Albany-Lebanon, OR metro.
Halsey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Halsey$392,828
- 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.
- Halsey6
Zip codes with a Halsey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Halsey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.