Most Affordable Oregon Coast Towns [Updated Version] 

I've lived in Crescent City and Brookings for the last five years and your assessment is accurate. Other issues we face are road closures due to weather, fires and smoke from Midsummer into fall, a diminished level of goods and services, sparseness of high-end retail, lack of specialized medical care, for instance if you're in Brookings, your cardiologist is in Medford. Disproportionate rates of homelessness and noncommunicative and uncommitted home repair tradesmen. Every Home Depot is about an hour and a half apart. You're going to do a lot of Internet shopping. Many of the available homes for sale are getting snapped up by people buying them sight unseen to use them as Airbnb rentals. You won't find anything near the beach, but there are an abundance of rivers and homes for sale along them. Your best option honestly is to buy a piece of property above a floodplain and build. If you are attracted to a certain town, find a way to spend about a week there and try to figure out what's really going on before you commit.

Something you should cover is medical care, hospitals, trauma center, specialists doctors ..what. Town has these ?

Unfortunately for us Oregonians, that are just “livin the dream”, it’s all still unaffordable. It went up way too fast because of your out of towners with cash. Makes me frustrated. :(

Was born in Oregon in 81, I drive the coast 3-4 times a year. Newport is by far the best place to visit. I would love to move there one day, but jobs just make it difficult because it is really a tourist/fishing town.

I do think Reedsport is underrated with it being half way between Coos and Florence, having easy inland access on 38 and a hospital in town. It does have decent shopping in town for basics, but it just seems like it lost its way after logging left town and its downtown is almost empty aside from the chainsaw carving. Hopefully the recent sales of the radio station and school of the arts will help bring more opportunities to the area.

I think I would love Reedsport.

Im a Brit with a yank mrs . We are thinking of living in America for a few years. Im a carpenter and as America is pretty much all made of wood i cant see me struggling for work anywhere so thats not my main concern. But trying to get my head around the American property market is hard . Its like everything is opposite to England. Here the older the house the more value. New builds are second most valuable and mid century stuff is the cheapest. Nobody wants 20th century houses because they are ugly. The new builds are usually made to replicate the 18th century houses we all dream of but with better parking. Cities are generally cheaper except London. Small towns are the cheapest of all especially ex mining towns. country houses out on there own are the most expensive outside of London. We pay premium for a 200 year old house with no other buildings in eye shot . For us thats the dream worth millions. Best of all a 5 or 6 hundred year old house in a tiny chocolate box village with a pub and a shop . They can be 3 milion for something tiny. For America thats the cheapest thing. Really hard for me to get my head around. Ive seen nice Victorian gothic farm houses in the middle of nowhere in America for 50 k . Allso condition is a main driving factor of value in America. Nobody wants to renovate things. In Britain condition is basically irrelevant. Value is entirely location based with upto 80% of the value being in the land . You could have an old farm house with no roof windows or floors in the British country side and it would be worth a fortune. Because its a house in the country out on its own. Getting planning permission to build that from scratch is a serious undertaking so people will pay anything to not go through that process. Its strange how culture dictates the value of things more than its actual use .

Your information is much appreciated 👍🏼

I lived in Coos Bay for decades. No way living in Coos Bay/North Bend is worth anywhere near the median home price. Maybe one day wages will catch up with cost on the Oregon Coast, but I doubt that will happen as long as out of state buyers continue to inflate property prices.

Another thing to mention, is that although a town is located on the coast, that doesn’t necessarily mean you can see the ocean when in that town. Take Florence, for example. Oftentimes, you only see the actual ocean in glimpses when driving the 101.

I am looking to move to the Oregon coast soon.

I used to want to live on the Oregon coast, but Ive moved inland a bit to southern Oregon instead. climate predictions dont look good for coastal regions in the next 20 years or so...

Love Astoria.

THANK YOU

Poor Reedsport, my hometown, isn't getting much love here, not even any film footage. It's got a few amenities: a hospital, a golf course, some decent restaurants, a museum and lots of recreation opportunities. I live in Coos Bay though, so I get it. 😄

We didn’t ask you to advertise for us we like our area kept as hidden as possible…I mean really who wants to come to a place where the roads often fall into the ocean, rain wind, you have to go to a bigger town to shop! No excitement you have to go inland to get warm, higher education, festivals, but those of us who love that basically like to be left alone🌊💙🌊💙🌊💙🌊

12:00, North Bend/Coos Bay.

You are so on target! I've lived in Brookings for 30 years and plan to hopefully move to Florence. I'm retired and plan to downsize.

I need to get out of Texas and Oregon is beautiful.

Want to sell my house and land in Yakima, WA.....I think Alsea is the best I can hope for in-so-far as price and accessibility.

Drinking water is the biggest reason for the towns not expanding. We need to be careful about expanding the towns too quickly.

Useful information, but the. “ you know” is very annoying.

Thoughts on Depoe Bay? Considering moving there…

Don't move to Florence! Nothing to see here! 😅

An approximate 9.0 earthquake is overdue for the Oregon Coast. Watch videos about the Cascadia Subduction Zone here on RU-vid. It is totally irresponsible for a Realtor to entice people to move to the Oregon Coast. It's totally stupid to be on the Oregon Coast. Geologists have been saying that everything will be "toast" between the coast and about 60 miles inland. The bridges and roads will be decimated. The only way out of there will be by helicopter. According to Oregon law, it is illegal for a Realtor to not disclose this information.

Unfortunately a lot those areas look like a hillbilly town, crazy rural Karens..

The author is upspeaking? Talking in question marks?

If you love rain, fog , wind. dampness and toe fungus the Oregon coast might be for you.