Marcola, Oregon.
Typical home $503,345 (+1.2% in a year). Eugene-Springfield, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,089 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,132 +1%
- $497,213$503,345 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $8,131 -2%
- $511,477$503,345 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.
- Marcola$2,642
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Marcola, OR rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Marcola, Lane County, Oregon
Marcola, in Lane County, had 580 people in the 2020 census. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marcola is a very small community in Lane County, Oregon, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes would comfortably suggest, so many households are settled and have been for a long time. Winters are cool and wet, with a little snow most years, and summers turn warm in August.
Work. People who live in Marcola work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. A small group works from home. Across Lane County, the biggest workplaces include the University of Oregon, the Riverbend hospital and the Eugene school district, and unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year even as the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Mill Creek runs in or beside town, and the Mohawk River is a short drive away, both good for time near the water. A longer drive brings you to Hayward Field, the stadium known for track and field, and to the McKenzie River. The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is also a longer drive away for an afternoon indoors.
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- 7%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 47° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 51°. About 3 inches of snow and 67 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leaburg Southwest weather station, 10 miles 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; Marcola has none 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
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Marcola’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.
Marcola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marcola$503,345
- 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.
- Marcola7
Zip codes with a Marcola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marcola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.