Lafayette, Oregon.
Typical home $457,526 (-0.1% in a year). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,242 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $295 -0%
- $457,821$457,526 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,290 +11%
- $413,236$457,526 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.
- Lafayette$2,401
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Lafayette, OR fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lafayette, Yamhill County, Oregon
Lafayette is a city of 4,423 people in Yamhill County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Yamhill County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lafayette is a small city in Yamhill County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. The population is on the younger side for a place where homeowners dominate, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect. Winters are cold and damp-leaning only in the sense of staying chilly, with December the coldest month, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades. Across Yamhill County, George Fox University and the McMinnville school district are among the largest employers. Commutes tend to run long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The South Yamhill River runs in or beside town, and Courthouse Square Park is also close by for a walk or an afternoon outdoors. A short drive away are the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum and the Yamhill River. For a longer trip, the Portland Japanese Garden and the Oregon Zoo are both a longer drive away.
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- 1,450households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yamhill County had 39,978 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mc Minnville weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yamhill County
- George Fox UniversityUniversity or college1,011
- McMinnville SD 40School district812FTE
- Newberg SD 29JSchool district579FTE
- Linfield UniversityUniversity or college556
- Alliance ServicesSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities452
- Empwr, USAMisc food450
- Providence Newberg Medical CenterGeneral hospital392FTE
- Cascade Steel Rolling MillsHot-rolling iron or steel products in iron and steel mills385
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,636 people in all across the county; Lafayette has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lafayette’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 Yamhill County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Lafayette home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lafayette$457,526
- 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 Lafayette 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.
- Lafayette37.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lafayette21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lafayette5
Zip codes with a Lafayette address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lafayette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.