Westfir, Oregon.
Typical home $331,800 (+0.8% in a year). Eugene-Springfield, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$935 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,623 +1%
- $329,177$331,800 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,635 +12%
- $297,164$331,800 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.
- Westfir$1,742
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Westfir, OR rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westfir, Lane County, Oregon
Westfir is a city of 259 people in Lane County. Half its households earn more than $66,667 a year and half less, against $71,544 across Lane County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Lane County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lane 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westfir is a very small town beside the North Fork Middle Fork Willamette River, with an older population than most places. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run a little below the county's, with more residents living below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold, with highs and lows hovering around freezing in December, and summers are warm without being hot. Snow falls a little each year, and the year as a whole is wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Across Lane County, the largest workplaces include the University of Oregon, the Riverbend hospital and the Eugene school district, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before, with unemployment a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. The North Fork Middle Fork Willamette River runs in or beside town, and Hills Creek Reservoir is a short drive away for time on the water. Farther out, a longer drive reaches Willamette National Forest, a large protected forest of trails and quiet. Salt Creek Falls, a waterfall, is also a longer drive away.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
What people in Lane County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lane County had 156,948 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 50°. About 5 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oakridge Fish Hatchery weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lane County
- University of OregonUniversity or college5,591
- Shmc-riverbendGeneral hospital2,401FTE
- Eugene SD 4JSchool district2,078FTE
- Springfield SD 19School district1,307FTE
- New Horizons - Oregon North - EugeneCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities797
- Lane Community CollegeTwo-year college781
- Mckenzie-willamette HospitalGeneral hospital777FTE
- Bethel SD 52School district759FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 352 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 37,418 people in all across the county; Westfir has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Westfir’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 Lane County and the Eugene-Springfield, OR metro.
Westfir home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westfir$331,800
- 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 Westfir address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westfir — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.