Tidewater, Oregon.
Typical home $419,863 (+2.7% in a year). Newport, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,285 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,191 +3%
- $408,672$419,863 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,889 +26%
- $331,973$419,863 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.
- Tidewater$2,204
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Tidewater, OR rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tidewater, Lincoln County, Oregon
The Census does not count Tidewater on its own, so the figures here are Lincoln County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,165 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lincoln County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tidewater sits in Lincoln County on the Oregon coast, where the residents are older than most of the country and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, snow is rare, and rain falls heavily through the year, while summers are the warmest part of the year. Across the county, more residents live below the poverty line than across the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Shops and professional and business services also employ many residents. Joblessness has eased over the past year, though the number of jobs has edged down a little.
Things to do. Cascade Falls is in or beside town, so it is the easiest outing for a waterfall walk. The Siuslaw National Forest, a protected area a short drive away, offers a wide stretch of woods to explore. The Alsea River, also a short drive away, makes a good place for a quiet afternoon by the water.
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- 23,115households
- 52.7median age
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What people in Lincoln County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 18,580 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 44° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 76° and lows near 50°. About 1 inches of snow and 92 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alsea Fh (fall Creek) weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Lincoln County SDSchool district714FTE
- Chinook WindsCasinos544
- Toledo Paper468
- Samaritan Pacific Comm HospitalCritical access hospital403FTE
- Pacific Seafood-NewportSeafood and seafood products manufacturing297
- North Lincoln HospitalCritical access hospital282FTE
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters233
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters201
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,045 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TsunamisRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lincoln County, 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 Lincoln County and the Newport, OR metro.
Tidewater home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tidewater$419,863
- 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.
- Tidewater9
Zip codes with a Tidewater address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tidewater — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.