Sprague River, Oregon.
Typical home $257,089 (+0.6% in a year). Klamath Falls, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$489 (+57%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $1,505 +1%
- $255,584$257,089 since Sep 2025
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.
- Sprague River$1,349
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sprague River, OR rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sprague River, Klamath County, Oregon
Sprague River, in Klamath County, had 80 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Klamath County was 6.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Klamath County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sprague River is a small community in Klamath County, in south-central Oregon, and it takes its name from the river that runs past it. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with a modest amount of rain and melted snow over the year. Its quiet, close-knit setting is a long way from the larger towns of the region.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and the town's people also find work in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Because the community is small, many people keep their jobs in or near the places they grew up. Work often means travelling a little to reach employers outside town.
Things to do. Upper Klamath Lake, the largest body of water in the area, is a longer drive away and is a good choice for boating and lakeside time. Fort Klamath, a historic fort a longer drive away, shows a part of the region's past. The OC&E Woods Line State Trail, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers a quiet route for walking and cycling.
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What people in Klamath County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Klamath County had 23,884 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 48°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Klamath Falls International Airport weather station, 24 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Klamath County
- SKY Lakes Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,281FTE
- Klamath County SDSchool district937FTE
- Oregon Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college623
- Klamath Falls City SchoolsSchool district436FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters416
- Klamath Community CollegeTwo-year college312
- Columbia Forest ProductsHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing287
- New Horizons - Oregon South - Klamath FallsCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities273
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,088 people in all across the county; Sprague River has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sprague River’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 Klamath County and the Klamath Falls, OR metro.
Sprague River home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sprague River$257,089
- 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 Sprague River address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sprague River — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.