Wheeler, Oregon.
Typical home $462,621 (+0.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,309 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,077 +0%
- $460,544$462,621 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,592 +11%
- $416,029$462,621 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.
- Wheeler$2,428
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Wheeler, OR rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wheeler, Tillamook County, Oregon
Wheeler is a city of 422 people in Tillamook County. Unemployment in Tillamook County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tillamook County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wheeler is a very small city on the Oregon coast, in Tillamook County, with fewer residents than most towns along the highway. Homes here cost more than a visitor might expect for a town this size. Winters are cool and mild, summers stay comfortable, snow is rare, and the year brings a great deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing, and in shops. Across Tillamook County, some of the largest workplaces are Tillamook Regional Medical Center, Tillamook SD 9 and Tillamook Country Smokers Factory. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Nehalem Bay State Park lies in or beside town, which makes a walk or a day by the water easy to arrange. A short drive away are Oswald West State Park and Manhattan Beach State Recreation Site, both protected coastal areas, and the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad, a museum for anyone who likes old trains. Ecola State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 13%below the poverty line
What people in Tillamook County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tillamook County had 9,916 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 51° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 69° and lows near 50°. About 90 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tillamook weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tillamook County
- Tillamook Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital357FTE
- Tillamook SD 9School district343FTE
- Tillamook Country Smokers FactoryMeats and meat products merchant wholesalers320
- Wm. Bolthouse Farms, Inc. db Generous BrandsFrozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing320
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters232
- Tillamook Lumber CompanyDimension lumber, softwood, made from logs or bolts175
- Noble House Pacific CityResort hotels without casinos171
- Werner Gourmet Meat SnacksMeats, cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses150
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,760 people in all across the county; Wheeler has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- TsunamisRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wheeler’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 Tillamook County.
Wheeler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wheeler$462,621
- 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 Wheeler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wheeler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.