Newberg, Oregon.
Typical home $525,710 (-1.0% in a year), asking rent $1,987 (+0.9%). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,329 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,445 -1%
- $531,154$525,710 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,042 +7%
- $491,667$525,710 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.
- Newberg$2,759
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 52 years.
Typical home values in Newberg, OR fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Newberg, OR rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Newberg runs $1,653/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,914 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,640 a month against $1,987 rent: a $2,759 mortgage payment, plus $318 property tax and $563 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Newberg
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,640
- Renting$1,987
- Mortgage only$2,759
Property tax · $318/mo 0.73% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Yamhill County, OR
Insurance & upkeep · $563/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Newberg, Yamhill County, Oregon
Newberg is a city of 25,138 people in Yamhill County. Half its households earn more than $93,232 a year and half less, against $90,063 across Yamhill County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Newberg was 4.1% in August 2026, and Yamhill 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. Newberg is a city in Yamhill County, and its residents are younger than you might expect for a Willamette Valley town. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than the figures often show for towns of this kind. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good share of households rent. Winters are cool and wet with very little snow, and summers are warm.
Work. People in Newberg work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. The largest workplaces in town include George Fox University, the Newberg school district and Providence Newberg Medical Center. Many residents commute some distance to work, and a fair number work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Hoover–Minthorn House is a museum. A short drive away are Champoeg, an archaeological site, and the Yamhill River. For a longer day out, the Portland Art Museum is a longer drive away.
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- 9,747households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 15%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 44° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 56°. About 1 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rex South weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newberg
- George Fox UniversityUniversity or college1,011
- Newberg SD 29JSchool district579FTE
- Alliance ServicesSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities452
- Providence Newberg Medical CenterGeneral hospital392FTE
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- City of NewbergCity and town managers' offices154
- Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Newberg OR (Springbrook)Substance abuse facilities, residential146
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores103
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,420 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of NewbergRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newberg’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.
Newberg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newberg$525,710
- 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 Newberg listings, and the typical home goes pending in 36 days — 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.
- Newberg30.09%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Newberg36
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newberg114
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newberg28
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Newberg$534,305
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Newberg99.25%
Zip codes with a Newberg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newberg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.