Heppner, Oregon.
Typical home $250,681 (+1.4% in a year). Hermiston-Pendleton, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$747 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,554 +1%
- $247,127$250,681 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,351 +23%
- $203,329$250,681 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.
- Heppner$1,316
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Heppner, OR rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Heppner, Morrow County, Oregon
Heppner is a city of 1,187 people in Morrow County. Unemployment in Morrow County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morrow County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Heppner is a small city and the seat of Morrow County, in the dry, open country of northeastern Oregon. It is small enough that most people know one another. Homes here are priced well below what many buyers expect to pay elsewhere, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than across much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while summers turn hot and dry by July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others earn a living in farming, forestry and mining or in manufacturing. Across Morrow County, the largest workplaces include Lamb Weston, which makes frozen vegetable products, and the Morrow school district. Household incomes in the county are modest, and the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Buck Falls is a waterfall that takes a longer drive to reach. Battle Mountain Forest State Scenic Corridor is a protected area, also a longer drive away, and a fit for a day among trees and open hills. Both are trips to plan around rather than quick errands.
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- 493households
- 11%of adults have a degree
What people in Morrow County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morrow County had 6,705 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 55°. About 13 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Heppner weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morrow County
- Lamb WestonFrozen fruit, juice, and vegetable manufacturing468
- Lamb WestonFrozen fruit, juice, and vegetable manufacturing401
- Morrow SD 1School district346FTE
- OEGElectrical wiring contractors287
- Boardman FoodsFrozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing255
- Lamb WestonCommercial and institutional building construction218
- RD Offutt Company NorthwestVegetable and potato farming, potato dominant crop, field and seed potato production196
- Oregon Potato CompanyDehydrated potato flake and flour148
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,868 people in all across the county; Heppner has two of its own. 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Heppner’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 Morrow County and the Hermiston-Pendleton, OR metro.
Heppner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Heppner$250,681
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Heppner listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Heppner11.81%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Heppner22
Zip codes with a Heppner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Heppner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.