Scio, Oregon.
Typical home $574,902 (+4.0% in a year). Albany-Lebanon, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,704 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,950 +4%
- $552,952$574,902 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,832 +22%
- $472,070$574,902 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.
- Scio$3,018
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Scio, OR rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scio, Linn County, Oregon
Scio is a city of 956 people in Linn County. Unemployment in Linn County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scio is a very small city in Linn County, Oregon, where people tend to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what many would expect for a place this size. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might guess. Winters are cool and damp, with highs in December well above freezing, and summers are warm in August. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in government and in manufacturing. Across Linn County, large employers include Samaritan Albany General Hospital, Linn-Benton Community College and Selmet. The commute is a long one for many people, and a share of residents work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Rivers are the easiest outing from town: the North Santiam River and the South Santiam River are each a short drive away, as is Crabtree Creek. For a longer drive, Silver Falls State Park is a protected area for walking and being outdoors, and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art is a museum for a quieter day.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Linn County had 48,405 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer 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 81° and lows near 53°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stayton weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Linn County
- TargetDiscount department stores1,315
- ATI - Millersburg OperationsPlatinum refining, primary1,085
- Samaritan Albany General HospitalGeneral hospital896FTE
- Linn-Benton Community CollegeTwo-year college739
- SelmetTitanium castings, unfinished, manufacturing700
- Lebanon Community SD 9School district592FTE
- Samaritan Lebanon Comm HospitalCritical access hospital554FTE
- Halsey Tissue422
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 132 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,376 people in all across the county; Scio has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scio’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 Linn County and the Albany-Lebanon, OR metro.
Scio home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scio$574,902
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Scio 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Scio18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Scio5
Zip codes with a Scio address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scio — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.