Lakeview, Oregon.
Typical home $198,266 (-3.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$594 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,745 -4%
- $206,011$198,266 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,859 +14%
- $173,407$198,266 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.
- Lakeview$1,041
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Lakeview, OR fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lakeview, Lake County, Oregon
Lakeview is a town of 2,418 people in Lake County. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Lake County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lakeview is a small town in Lake County, Oregon, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the typical home costs less than in many parts of the country. Incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than across much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and the year as a whole is fairly dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops, and in farming, forestry and mining. The biggest workplaces in Lakeview include Lake Health District, a critical access hospital, along with the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Unemployment has stayed a little higher than in many places, the county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year, and getting to work is quick, with a commute shorter than in most of the country.
Things to do. Warner Canyon, a ski area, and Junipers Reservoir are both a short drive away, and Thomas Creek, a river, is close by as well. Goose Lake, a lake, is a longer drive away for those who want more room to roam.
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- 1,454households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 7 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 2,497 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer 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 86° and lows near 51°. About 55 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lakeview Nnw weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lakeview
- Lake Health DistrictCritical access hospital231FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture63
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior60
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores50
- Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 50 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lakeview’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 Lake County.
Lakeview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lakeview$198,266
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lakeview 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.
- Lakeview21.89%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lakeview46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lakeview9
Zip codes with a Lakeview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lakeview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.