La Pine, Oregon.
Typical home $396,094 (-3.4% in a year), asking rent $1,874 . Bend, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,126 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $13,771 -3%
- $409,865$396,094 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,948 +6%
- $375,146$396,094 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.
- La Pine$2,079
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 64 years.
Typical home values in La Pine, OR fell 3.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Pine, Deschutes County, Oregon
La Pine is a city of 2,512 people in Deschutes County. Half its households earn more than $58,365 a year and half less, against $92,758 across Deschutes County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Deschutes County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Pine is a small city in Deschutes County, and its household incomes run well below the county's as a whole. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than you might expect in a place this close to a larger regional centre. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in December, and a good deal of snow falls each year; summers are warm in July without turning hot.
Work. Residents find work in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in manufacturing. The La Pine Community Health Center, a family physicians' practice, is among the biggest workplaces in town. Many people have a commute of a fair length, and a good number work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year ago, while the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. La Pine State Park, a protected area, and Fall River, a river, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Paulina Lake, a lake in the high country, and to Newberry National Volcanic Monument, a protected area. Rivers, lakes and waterfalls are the main draw, so the outdoors is the natural place to spend free time.
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- 1,070households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Deschutes County had 93,998 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 47°. About 74 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wickiup Dam weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Deschutes County
- St Charles Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,092FTE
- Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1School district1,995FTE
- Redmond SD 2JSchool district874FTE
- BasxFurnaces, warm air, manufacturing813
- High Desert Education ServicesEducation program administration794
- Sunriver ResortHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities732
- Mt. BachelorAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations576
- Central Oregon Community CollegeTwo-year college513
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 184 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,835 people in all across the county; La Pine has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Pine’s 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 Deschutes County and the Bend, OR metro.
La Pine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Pine$396,094
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 La Pine listings, and the typical home goes pending in 52 days — 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.
- La Pine35.03%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- La Pine52
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- La Pine183
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- La Pine21
Zip codes with a La Pine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Pine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in La Pine
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97739 | La Pine | 13,183 | $1,874 | $396,581 |
| 97737 | Gilchrist | 557 | — | $276,167 |