Powell Butte, Oregon.
Typical home $996,339 (+0.1% in a year). Prineville, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,992 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $611 +0%
- $995,728$996,339 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $132,392 +15%
- $863,947$996,339 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.
- Powell Butte$5,230
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Powell Butte, OR rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Powell Butte, Crook County, Oregon
The Census does not count Powell Butte on its own, so the figures here are Crook County's. Half the county's households earn more than $81,965 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Crook County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Crook 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Powell Butte sits in Crook County, Oregon, where winters are colder than in most of the country and summers are warm. Most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented, and home values make up a large part of what living here costs. It is a community where people tend to know one another and look out for each other.
Work. Across Crook County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in manufacturing. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and job numbers slipped a little last year while unemployment edged up. Few people work from home, so most travel some distance to their jobs.
Things to do. Ochoco State Scenic Viewpoint, a protected area, is a short drive away, and Dry River, a river, is close by as well. Smith Rock State Park and Deschutes National Forest, both protected areas, are a longer drive away and make for a good day trip.
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- 10,782households
- 47.2median age
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Crook County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crook County had 7,422 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 48°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Redmond Roberts Field weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crook County
- Crook County SDSchool district437FTE
- Les SchwabAutomotive tire dealers234
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture186
- Les SchwabAutomotive tire dealers172
- R2 ContractorsExcavation contractors160
- St. Charles MED CTR - PrinevilleCritical access hospital153FTE
- Centerline DrillingExcavation contractors108
- Hodge WesternExcavation contractors100
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,725 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Crook County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Crook County and the Prineville, OR metro.
Powell Butte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Powell Butte$996,339
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Powell Butte listings — 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.
- Powell Butte25.25%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Powell Butte76
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Powell Butte13
Zip codes with a Powell Butte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Powell Butte — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.