Summerville, Oregon.
Typical home $563,236 (+5.4% in a year). La Grande, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,649 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,682 +5%
- $534,554$563,236 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,496 +23%
- $458,740$563,236 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.
- Summerville$2,956
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Summerville, OR rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Summerville, Union County, Oregon
Summerville is a town of 119 people in Union County. Unemployment in Union County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Union 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Summerville is a very small town in Union County, in northeastern Oregon. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year. Life here is quiet, and neighbors know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in manufacturing. Jobs in the county dipped slightly last year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year before. Most trips to work are quick, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Umatilla National Forest, a protected area a longer drive away, is one of the best known places nearby. The Wallowa River, a river a longer drive away, offers another option for an outing. The Elgin Opera House, a theatre a short drive away, is the closest of these choices.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Union County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Union County had 10,444 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 39° and lows near 23°; warmest in August, with highs near 87° and lows near 46°. About 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elgin weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Union County
- Grande Ronde HospitalCritical access hospital602FTE
- Eastern Oregon UniversityUniversity or college464
- La Grande SD 1School district271FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters266
- Boise Cascade CoSoftwood veneer and plywood manufacturing241
- Lakeside FoodsVegetables, frozen, manufacturing236
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture166
- Kronospan La GrandeParticleboard manufacturing152
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,189 people in all across the county; Summerville has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Summerville’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 Union County and the La Grande, OR metro.
Summerville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Summerville$563,236
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Summerville6
Zip codes with a Summerville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Summerville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.