Irrigon, Oregon.
Typical home $306,582 (+1.3% in a year). Hermiston-Pendleton, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$954 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,887 +1%
- $302,695$306,582 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,258 +19%
- $257,324$306,582 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.
- Irrigon$1,609
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Irrigon, OR rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Irrigon, Morrow County, Oregon
Irrigon is a city of 2,011 people in Morrow County. Half its households earn more than $74,336 a year and half less, against $75,448 across Morrow County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Irrigon is a small city in Morrow County, Oregon, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a modest share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold while summers turn hot and dry, with very little rain or snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Morrow County, the largest workplaces include Lamb Weston, which makes frozen vegetables, the Morrow school district and Boardman Foods. Jobs across the county fell a little last year, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, with almost nobody working from home.
Things to do. Lake Wallula, a reservoir, and the Umatilla National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, are both a short drive away, and the Umatilla River is close by as well. For a longer outing, the Snake River lies a longer drive away, and it is one of the best known waterways in the region.
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- 755households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents 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 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 56°. About 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hermiston Northwest weather station, 9 miles 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; Irrigon has none 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Irrigon’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 Morrow County and the Hermiston-Pendleton, OR metro.
Irrigon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Irrigon$306,582
- 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.
- Irrigon6
Zip codes with a Irrigon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Irrigon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.