Hines, Oregon.
Typical home $230,400 (+3.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$713 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,653 +3%
- $222,747$230,400 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,466 +25%
- $184,934$230,400 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.
- Hines$1,209
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Hines, OR rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hines, Harney County, Oregon
Hines is a city of 1,645 people in Harney County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Harney County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Harney 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hines is a small city in Harney County in eastern Oregon, with a population older than in many American towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, while July brings hot days; the year as a whole is dry, with little rain or melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, or in government. The largest workplaces in Hines include the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service and a hay farming business, ACW. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Malheur Lake, a lake a longer drive away. The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area also a longer drive away, and the Donner und Blitzen River, which flows through that country, make good outings for people who enjoy open land and water.
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- 615households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 8 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Harney County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harney County had 2,625 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 36° and lows near 16°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 49°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burns Municipal Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hines
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior60
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture53
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior52
- ACWHay farming46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 46 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hines’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Harney County.
Hines home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hines$230,400
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hines 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.
- Hines20.63%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hines22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hines5
Zip codes with a Hines address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hines — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.