Mapleton, Oregon.
Typical home $376,289 (+0.0% in a year). Eugene-Springfield, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$932 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $29 +0%
- $376,260$376,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,618 +4%
- $361,670$376,289 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.
- Mapleton$1,975
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 87 years.
Typical home values in Mapleton, OR rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mapleton, Lane County, Oregon
Mapleton, in Lane County, had 493 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $56,875 a year and half less, against $71,544 across Lane County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mapleton is a very small community, a place where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes here are below the county's, and the typical home is worth more than that income might suggest. Winters are cool and wet, summers mild and warm, and a great deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. The commute is a fairly short one, and only a small number of people work from home. Across Lane County, the biggest workplaces include the University of Oregon and the Shmc-riverbend hospital.
Things to do. Lake Creek and Beaver Creek Falls, a river and a waterfall, are both a short drive away. Farther out, a longer drive brings you to the Siuslaw River and to the Siuslaw National Forest, a protected area of woods and trails. It is a place for people who like water and trees close at hand.
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- 210households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%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 50° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 54°. About 84 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mapleton weather station, under 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; Mapleton 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mapleton’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.
Mapleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mapleton$376,289
- 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.
- Mapleton10
Zip codes with a Mapleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mapleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Mapleton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97453 | Mapleton | 965 | — | $383,637 |
| 97493 | Westlake | 491 | — | $443,089 |