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Heceta Beach, Oregon.

A community in Lane County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Lane County’s.

Living in Heceta Beach, Lane County, Oregon

Heceta Beach, in Lane County, had 1,912 people in the 2020 census. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Lane County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lane County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 1,912 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Heceta Beach for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 5.3% Lane County, August 2026; 5.6% a year before
Homes 87% lived in by their owners; 13% rented
  • 1,225households
  • 13%below the poverty line
  • 12 mintypical commute

What people in Lane County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care28%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Professional and business services11%
  • Manufacturing10%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment9%
  • Building trades6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lane County had 156,948 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 48° and 37°; warmest in July, 68° and 50° 30° 40° 50° 60° 70° J F M A M J J 68° 50° A S O N D 48° 37°
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 48° and 37°; warmest in July, 68° and 50° 30° 40° 50° 60° 70° J F M A M J J 68° 50° A S O N D 48° 37°

Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 68° and lows near 50°. About 1 inches of snow and 76 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Florence #2 weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Lane County

  1. University of OregonUniversity or college5,591
  2. Shmc-riverbendGeneral hospital2,401FTE
  3. Eugene SD 4JSchool district2,078FTE
  4. Springfield SD 19School district1,307FTE
  5. New Horizons - Oregon North - EugeneCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities797
  6. Lane Community CollegeTwo-year college781
  7. Mckenzie-willamette HospitalGeneral hospital777FTE
  8. Bethel SD 52School district759FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 352 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 37,418 people in all across the county; Heceta Beach has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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

  1. EarthquakesRelatively high
  2. Inland floodingRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Heceta Beach’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 Lane County.