Nyssa, Oregon.
Typical home $274,126 (+2.8% in a year). Ontario, OR-ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$902 (+168%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,565 +3%
- $266,561$274,126 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,577 +25%
- $219,549$274,126 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.
- Nyssa$1,439
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Nyssa, OR rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon
Nyssa is a city of 3,198 people in Malheur County. Half its households earn more than $69,183 a year and half less, against $54,519 across Malheur County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Malheur County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nyssa is a small city in Malheur County, on the eastern edge of Oregon. It is a young place, with a much lower typical age than most American towns, and household incomes here run above the county's. Winters are cold, with only light snowfall, and summers are hot and dry, with little rain across the year.
Work. People here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in government. Across Malheur County, the largest workplaces include JR Simplot Co, a frozen fruit, juice and vegetable manufacturer, along with the Ontario school district and Walmart. Job numbers across the county have held roughly steady, and the commute is a fairly long one, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Fort Boise, a historic fort, and the Fort Boise Wildlife Management Area, a protected area for wildlife, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Owyhee State Park, a protected area built around a reservoir. The Payette River is also within a longer drive, for those who like to spend time by the water.
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- 961households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Malheur County had 13,510 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 62°. About 8 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nyssa weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Malheur County
- JR Simplot CoFrozen fruit, juice and vegetable manufacturing569
- Ontario SD 8CSchool district381FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters363
- Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - ONTGeneral hospital283FTE
- Treasure Valley Community CollegeTwo-year college283
- Nyssa SD 26School district181FTE
- Vale SD 84School district134FTE
- Americold Logistics, LLC: OntarioRefrigerated warehousing127
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,128 people in all across the county; Nyssa has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Nyssa’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Malheur County and the Ontario, OR-ID metro.
Nyssa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nyssa$274,126
- 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.
- Nyssa15
Zip codes with a Nyssa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nyssa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.