Powers, Oregon.
Typical home $186,670 (+0.5% in a year). Coos Bay, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$495 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,009 +1%
- $185,661$186,670 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,518 +10%
- $169,152$186,670 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.
- Powers$980
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Powers, OR rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Powers, Coos County, Oregon
Powers is a city of 710 people in Coos County. Unemployment in Coos County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Coos County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Powers is a very small city in Coos County, Oregon, with far fewer people than most American towns. Homes here cost less than the typical home across the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and wet rather than snowy, with a touch of snow in some years, and summers turn warm in August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Coos County, the largest workplaces include BAY Area Hospital, Bandon Dunes and the Coos Bay school district. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Coquille Myrtle Grove State Natural Site, a protected area, is a short drive away. The Illinois River and the Coquille River, both a longer drive away, are rivers where anglers and walkers can find plenty of riverbank to explore. Humbug Mountain State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area on the coast.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
What people in Coos County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Coos County had 23,106 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 52° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 52°. About 1 inches of snow and 59 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Powers weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coos County
- Bay Area HospitalGeneral hospital851FTE
- Bandon DunesGolf courses850
- Coos Bay SD 9School district391FTE
- Roseburg Forest productsWoodproducts manufacturing381
- North Bend SD 13School district358FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- Southwestern Oregon Community CollegeTwo-year college303
- New Horizons - Oregon North - Coos BayCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities275
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 77 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,730 people in all across the county; Powers has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Powers’ 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 Coos County and the Coos Bay, OR metro.
Powers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Powers$186,670
- 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.
- Powers12
Zip codes with a Powers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Powers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.