Lowell, Oregon.
Typical home $445,680 (+1.6% in a year). Eugene-Springfield, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,188 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,814 +2%
- $438,866$445,680 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,065 +9%
- $407,615$445,680 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.
- Lowell$2,339
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Lowell, OR rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lowell, Lane County, Oregon
Lowell is a city of 1,196 people in Lane County. Half its households earn more than $99,440 a year and half less, against $71,544 across Lane County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Lane County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lane 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lowell is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than across the county. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and homes here are valued at a level that reflects the town's appeal as a quiet place near water.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Many commute a fair way to jobs elsewhere in the county, and some work from home. The biggest employers across Lane County include the University of Oregon, the hospital at Shmc-riverbend, and the Eugene school district. Joblessness across the county is close to where it stood a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Much of the recreation here centers on water. Fall Creek Lake and Dexter Reservoir are reservoirs in or beside town, and Lowell State Recreation Site is a protected area in or beside town as well. Lookout Point Lake, another reservoir, is a short drive away. Winters are cool and wet with very little snow, and summers are warm.
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- 493households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Lane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lane County had 156,948 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 54°. About 1 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lookout Pt Dam weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lane County
- University of OregonUniversity or college5,591
- Shmc-riverbendGeneral hospital2,401FTE
- Eugene SD 4JSchool district2,078FTE
- Springfield SD 19School district1,307FTE
- New Horizons - Oregon North - EugeneCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities797
- Lane Community CollegeTwo-year college781
- Mckenzie-willamette HospitalGeneral hospital777FTE
- Bethel SD 52School district759FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 352 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 37,418 people in all across the county; Lowell has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lowell’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 Lane County and the Eugene-Springfield, OR metro.
Lowell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lowell$445,680
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lowell8
Zip codes with a Lowell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lowell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Lowell
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97452 | Lowell | 1,703 | — | $440,586 |
| 97438 | Fall Creek | 1,311 | — | $566,614 |