Selma, Oregon.
Typical home $319,224 (-3.8% in a year). Grants Pass, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$716 (+75%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,444 -4%
- $331,667$319,224 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $32,906 -9%
- $352,129$319,224 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.
- Selma$1,676
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Selma, OR fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Selma, Josephine County, Oregon
Selma, in Josephine County, had 661 people in the 2020 census. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Josephine County was 7.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Josephine County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Selma is a very small community in Josephine County, Oregon, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes here are likely to sit below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by few adults. Winters are cool and wet, while July brings hot days, and a little snow falls most years.
Work. People in Selma work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Josephine County, the largest workplaces include the Grants Pass school district, Three Rivers/Josephine County Schools and Rogue Community College. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment there has eased slightly from a year earlier.
Things to do. Illinois River Forks State Park is a short drive away and gives access to the river country of southwest Oregon. Great Cats World Park, a zoo, is also a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, a protected area known for its marble caves, and to Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Josephine County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Josephine County had 30,834 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 52°. About 7 inches of snow and 61 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cave Junction Wnw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Josephine County
- Rever GrandCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities2,008
- Grants Pass SD 7School district765FTE
- Three Rivers/Josephine County SDSchool district687FTE
- Rogue Community CollegeTwo-year college573
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters425
- Josephine CountySheriffs' offices394
- Masterbrand Cabinets, Grants PassCabinets, kitchen, stock or custom wood, manufacturing361
- District OfficeAcademies, elementary or secondary287
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 76 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,250 people in all across the county; Selma has none of its own. School districts come 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Selma’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 Josephine County and the Grants Pass, OR metro.
Selma home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Selma$319,224
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Selma 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.
- Selma21.08%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Selma21
Zip codes with a Selma address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Selma — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.