Shedd, Oregon.
Typical home $597,089 (+3.8% in a year). Albany-Lebanon, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,701 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,850 +4%
- $575,239$597,089 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,386 +19%
- $502,703$597,089 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.
- Shedd$3,134
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Shedd, OR rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shedd, Linn County, Oregon
Shedd, in Linn County, had 213 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Linn County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shedd is a very small community in Linn County, Oregon, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Homes here cost well above what incomes across the county would suggest, so it can be a stretch for newcomers. Winters are cool and damp, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm, with August the warmest and a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Linn County, some of the largest workplaces are Samaritan Albany General Hospital, Linn-Benton Community College and Target. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Thompson's Mills State Heritage Site, a protected area in or beside town, is the nearest place to get out and about. The Long Tom River is a short drive away, and the McKenzie River is a longer drive for time by the water. For a day out of a different kind, Autzen Stadium, a stadium in the same longer-drive range, hosts games.
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What people in Linn County 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 82° and lows near 51°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corvallis Ssw weather station, 11 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; Shedd has none 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 Shedd’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.
Shedd home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shedd$597,089
- 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.
Zip codes with a Shedd address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shedd — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.