Oysterville, Washington.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,588 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Washington$3,084
- United States$1,922
Living in Oysterville, Pacific County, Washington
The Census does not count Oysterville on its own, so the figures here are Pacific County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,081 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Pacific County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pacific County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oysterville is a small town in Pacific County, on the Long Beach Peninsula in southwestern Washington, where the land meets Willapa Bay and the Pacific coast. It was settled in the nineteenth century, and across the county most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and wet, with snow rare, and summers are mild and warm, with plenty of rain falling through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment across the county has edged up over the past year, and jobs have dipped slightly. Working from home is less common here than in larger cities, so most people commute to work.
Things to do. Leadbetter Point State Park, a protected area a short drive away, and Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, also a protected area a short drive away, are good places to explore the bay and its shoreline. For a longer drive, Fort Stevens, a fort, and Cape Disappointment State Park, another protected area, offer more to see along the coast.
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- 10,977households
- 55.0median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What people in Pacific County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pacific County had 6,477 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 66° and lows near 52°. About 79 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Beach Experiment Station weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pacific County
- WeyerhaeuserLumber195
- Willapa Harbor HospitalCritical access hospital140FTE
- Adrift HospitalityHotels130
- Pacific Seafood- South BendCannery, seafood127
- Ocean Beach School DistrictSchool district109FTE
- Ocean Beach HospitalCritical access hospital106FTE
- South Bend School DistrictSchool district82FTE
- Nisbet Oyster CoSeafood merchant wholesalers75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,020 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- TsunamisVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Pacific County, 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 Pacific County.
Oysterville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Oysterville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oysterville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.