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Paisley, Oregon.

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What it costs per month · Paisley $2,586/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,249 (+93%) 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Oregon $2,586 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Oregon$2,586
  • United States$1,922

Living in Paisley, Lake County, Oregon

Paisley is a city of 250 people in Lake County. Unemployment in Lake County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lake County work in schools and health care, then farming.

People 250 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Paisley for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 5.5% Lake County, August 2026; 5.3% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Paisley for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paisley is a very small city in Lake County, Oregon, the kind of place where residents are likely to know one another by name. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.

Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, shops and government. Across Lake County, the largest workplaces include Lake Health District, Lake County SD 7 and the Forest Service. Unemployment across the county has edged up a little over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.

Things to do. The Paisley Caves, an archaeological site, are a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Summer Lake, a lake, and to Gearhart Mountain Wilderness, a protected area. Both are good destinations for a day out of town.

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  • 4%below the poverty line
  • 6%work from home

What people in Lake County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care26%
  • Farming, forestry and mining17%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Government11%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities5%
  • Building trades5%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 2,497 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 40° and 21°; warmest in July, 85° and 49° 20° 40° 60° 80° J F M A M J J 85° 49° A S O N D 40° 21°
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 40° and 21°; warmest in July, 85° and 49° 20° 40° 60° 80° J F M A M J J 85° 49° A S O N D 40° 21°

Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 49°.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paisley weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Lake County

  1. Lake Health DistrictCritical access hospital231FTE
  2. Lake County SD 7School district124FTE
  3. Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture63
  4. Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior60
  5. SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores50
  6. North Lake SD 14School district45FTE
  7. JR Simplot CoBeef cattle ranching & farming, including feedlots44
  8. Bureau of Land ManagementFederal government · Department of the Interior36

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 94 people in all across the county; Paisley has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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

  1. Winter weatherVery high
  2. Inland floodingVery high
  3. WildfireRelatively high
  4. LightningRelatively high
  5. EarthquakesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Paisley’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 Lake County.

Paisley 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.

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Zip codes with a Paisley address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paisley — 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.