Seaside, Oregon.
Typical home $469,942 (-0.2% in a year), asking rent $1,812 . Astoria, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,308 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $920 -0%
- $470,861$469,942 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,201 +12%
- $419,740$469,942 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.
- Seaside$2,467
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Seaside, OR fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seaside, Clatsop County, Oregon
Seaside is a city of 7,115 people in Clatsop County. Half its households earn more than $47,361 a year and half less, against $71,822 across Clatsop County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Clatsop County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seaside is a small coastal city on the Oregon shore, with household incomes well below the county's and fewer homes lived in by their owners than you might expect, which points to a good many renters. Winters are cool and wet rather than snowy, and summers stay mild, with September the warmest month. Rain is plentiful through the year, and a four-year degree is held by a fair number of adults here.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with some in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Seaside are Providence Seaside Hospital, Safeway and Wyndham Vacation Ownership. Commutes are short, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Seaside Aquarium sits in or beside town, and the Necanicum River runs through it. A short drive away is Ecola State Park, a protected area along the coast. Farther afield, Fort Clatsop, part of the Lewis and Clark story, is a longer drive.
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- 3,638households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clatsop County had 19,295 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 51° and lows near 38°; warmest in September, with highs near 67° and lows near 50°. About 77 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Seaside weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Seaside
- Providence Seaside HospitalCritical access hospital233FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores114
- Wyndham Vacation OwnershipHotels and motels37
- Avamere SeasideContinuing care retirement communities34
- AHR-Seaside Or ALF TRS SUBAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities23
- Providence Elderplace North Coast-seasidNursing care facilities23
- Diamond HeatingHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 707 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- TsunamisVery high
- Coastal floodingVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seaside’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Clatsop County and the Astoria, OR metro.
Seaside home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seaside$469,942
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Seaside listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Seaside22.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Seaside83
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Seaside16
Zip codes with a Seaside address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seaside — 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.