Keizer, Oregon.
Typical home $446,607 (+0.2% in a year), asking rent $1,581 (+1.6%). Salem, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,156 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $831 +0%
- $445,775$446,607 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,781 +9%
- $410,826$446,607 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.
- Keizer$2,344
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Keizer, OR rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Keizer, OR rose 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Keizer runs $1,554/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,713 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,134 a month against $1,581 rent: a $2,344 mortgage payment, plus $312 property tax and $478 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Keizer
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,134
- Renting$1,581
- Mortgage only$2,344
Property tax · $312/mo 0.84% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Marion County, OR
Insurance & upkeep · $478/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Keizer, Marion County, Oregon
Keizer is a city of 39,376 people in Marion County. Half its households earn more than $84,813 a year and half less, against $77,351 across Marion County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Keizer was 5.3% in August 2026, and Marion County had 2.6% more 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. Keizer is a city in Marion County, Oregon, with a population that is on the younger side of middle age. Incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cool and wet, with the coldest days in December, and summers turn pleasantly warm by August, with a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Keizer are Safeway, Winco Foods and Willamette Lutheran Retirement Community. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Waldo Park, a park a short drive away, makes an easy outing, and Willamette Mission State Park, a protected area also a short drive away, offers open ground along the river valley. For a rainy day, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art is a museum a short drive away. The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is a longer drive, and worth it for those who enjoy aircraft.
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- 14,782households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marion County had 175,778 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 55°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salem Mcnary Field weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Keizer
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores152
- Avamere Court at KeizerSkilled nursing facilities145
- Winco FoodsStore92
- Willamette Lutheran Retirement CommunityRetirement homes without nursing care67
- City of SalemWater treatment plants57
- Salem Health Hospitals and ClinicsCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient45
- Department of EnergyFederal government34
- Salem HealthClinics/centers of health practitioners with multi-industry degrees34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 647 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Keizer’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 Marion County and the Salem, OR metro.
Keizer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Keizer$446,607
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Keizer listings, and the typical home goes pending in 34 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Keizer33.75%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Keizer34
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Keizer151
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Keizer41
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Keizer$459,120
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Keizer100.19%
Zip codes with a Keizer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Keizer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.