Oakridge, Oregon.
Typical home $281,450 (-0.4% in a year). Eugene-Springfield, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$787 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,082 -0%
- $282,533$281,450 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,936 +13%
- $249,515$281,450 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.
- Oakridge$1,477
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Oakridge, OR fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oakridge, Lane County, Oregon
Oakridge is a city of 3,206 people in Lane County. Half its households earn more than $40,297 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oakridge is a small city in Lane County, in the Cascade foothills of Oregon. Its residents are older than in most American towns, and household incomes run well below the county's. Winters are cold and wet, with a little snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Across Lane County, the largest workplaces include the University of Oregon, Shmc-riverbend and the Eugene school district. Joblessness across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs there has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Salt Creek runs in or beside town, and the North Fork Middle Fork Willamette River and Hills Creek Reservoir are a short drive away for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Willamette National Forest, a large protected area of woodland. Salt Creek Falls, also a longer drive away, is a waterfall worth the trip.
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- 1,453households
- 16%of adults have a degree
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 42° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 50°. About 5 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oakridge Fish Hatchery 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; Oakridge 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oakridge’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.
Oakridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oakridge$281,450
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Oakridge listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Oakridge21.95%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oakridge23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oakridge5
Zip codes with a Oakridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oakridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.