Willamina, Oregon.
Typical home $351,464 (+0.6% in a year). Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$986 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,036 +1%
- $349,428$351,464 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,312 +14%
- $307,152$351,464 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.
- Willamina$1,845
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Willamina, OR rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon
Willamina is a city of 2,239 people in Yamhill County. Half its households earn more than $58,906 a year and half less, against $90,063 across Yamhill County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Yamhill County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willamina is a small city, with residents who are a little older than the typical American and a majority who own the homes they live in. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and damp, summers are mild, and a great deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, in manufacturing, or in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Yamhill County, some of the largest workplaces are George Fox University and the McMinnville school district. The typical commute is a long one, and some people work from home. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Willamina Creek runs in or beside town, a river close enough for an easy visit. Fort Yamhill, a historic fort, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art is a museum a longer drive away, and the Santiam River is another river reached by a longer drive.
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- 800households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yamhill County had 39,978 jobs in 2025, 1.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 72° and lows near 51°. About 132 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laurel Mountain weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yamhill County
- George Fox UniversityUniversity or college1,011
- McMinnville SD 40School district812FTE
- Newberg SD 29JSchool district579FTE
- Linfield UniversityUniversity or college556
- Alliance ServicesSelf-help organizations for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities452
- Empwr, USAMisc food450
- Providence Newberg Medical CenterGeneral hospital392FTE
- Cascade Steel Rolling MillsHot-rolling iron or steel products in iron and steel mills385
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,636 people in all across the county; Willamina has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willamina’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 Yamhill County and the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro.
Willamina home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willamina$351,464
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Willamina listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Willamina22.94%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Willamina19
Zip codes with a Willamina address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willamina — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.