Scappoose, Oregon.
Typical home $479,059 (-1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,584 . Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,190 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,446 -2%
- $486,505$479,059 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,050 +6%
- $452,009$479,059 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.
- Scappoose$2,514
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 60 years.
Typical home values in Scappoose, OR fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scappoose, Columbia County, Oregon
Scappoose is a city of 8,010 people in Columbia County. Half its households earn more than $97,708 a year and half less, against $87,458 across Columbia County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Columbia County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scappoose is a small city in Columbia County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live there tend to be somewhat older than in many places. Household incomes run above the county's, and typical home values and rents are on the higher side for a town of this size. Winters are cool, with December the coldest month, while August brings warm days, and the year as a whole is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. The Scappoose School District, Fred Meyer Stores and Avalon Care Center Scappoose are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are fairly long, and a share of residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Willamette River and the Sauvie Island Wildlife Area, a protected area, offer open water and green space close to town. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Portland Art Museum and the Oregon Zoo, both in the Portland area.
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- 3,176households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbia County had 12,277 jobs in 2025, 2.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 54°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Scappoose Ind Airport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scappoose
- Scappoose SD 1JSchool district285FTE
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters246
- Avalon Care Center ScappooseSkilled nursing facilities53
- Grocery Outlet ScappooseFood stores22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 321 people in all. School districts come 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of ScappooseRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scappoose’s census tracts, 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 Columbia County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Scappoose home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scappoose$479,059
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Scappoose listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Scappoose39.65%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Scappoose57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Scappoose13
Zip codes with a Scappoose address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scappoose — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.