Keno, Oregon.
Typical home $310,963 (-2.5% in a year). Klamath Falls, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$922 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,821 -2%
- $318,784$310,963 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,970 +21%
- $256,992$310,963 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.
- Keno$1,632
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Keno, OR fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Keno, Klamath County, Oregon
Keno, in Klamath County, had 1,980 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $72,877 a year and half less, against $58,830 across Klamath County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Klamath County was 6.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Klamath County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Keno is a small community in Klamath County, Oregon, where households earn more than the county's typical household, and fewer people than you might expect live below the poverty line. Homes here are priced above what is usual for a small town in this part of the state. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing in December and a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Klamath County, some of the largest workplaces are SKY Lakes Medical Center, Klamath County Schools and Oregon Institute of Technology. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Water and open country are close at hand. The Link River and John C. Boyle Reservoir are a short drive away, as is Bear Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. For a longer outing, Upper Klamath Lake is a longer drive away.
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- 12%below the poverty line
What people in Klamath County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Klamath County had 23,884 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 48°. About 52 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keno weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Klamath County
- SKY Lakes Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,281FTE
- Klamath County SDSchool district937FTE
- Oregon Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college623
- Klamath Falls City SchoolsSchool district436FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters416
- Klamath Community CollegeTwo-year college312
- Columbia Forest ProductsHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing287
- New Horizons - Oregon South - Klamath FallsCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities273
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,088 people in all across the county; Keno has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Keno’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 Klamath County and the Klamath Falls, OR metro.
Keno home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Keno$310,963
- 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.
Zip codes with a Keno address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Keno — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.