A typical Gaston home is worth about $671,000
Up 1% in a year, 35% above the Oregon typical home.
What kind of housing town is Gaston?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 5.3 years of income
Less than across Oregon (6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $161K short of a typical Gaston home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,800 a month here, $2,070 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Gaston’s typical property tax (0.62% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 11.3% in five years
Faster than Oregon (7.7%).
Show as a table
| January | Gaston | Oregon |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $380,000 | $313,000 |
| 2018 | $414,000 | $337,000 |
| 2019 | $440,000 | $354,000 |
| 2020 | $465,000 | $369,000 |
| 2021 | $539,000 | $411,000 |
| 2022 | $623,000 | $480,000 |
| 2023 | $635,000 | $490,000 |
| 2024 | $655,000 | $495,000 |
| 2025 | $682,000 | $504,000 |
| 2026 | $675,000 | $500,000 |
| August 2026 | $671,000 | $496,000 |
A typical Gaston home worth $367K in September 2016 is worth about $671K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,800
Renters already here pay a median of $1,563, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
82% of Gaston households own their home
Half of Gaston’s homes were built before 1982.
Oregon: 63% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Gaston buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.