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Coos Bay, OR

Coos Bay is a selective-investigation market for buyers who can verify insurance and underwrite conservatively; income-focused investors attracted by recent rent strength may investigate, while buyers dependent on rapid appreciation or s...

Median price$355k
Median rent$1,580
Gross yield5.3%
Job growth▼ 0.1%
Micro Area · CBSA 1830040 public sourcesChecked nightly
SCORE / 10048RANK #299 / 571
Composite Market ScoreRank #299 of 571 scored US market areas
Direct rental answer

How much is rent in Coos Bay, OR?

Zillow's metro-wide Observed Rent Index is $1,580 per month for 2026-06-30. That is up 9.75% from a year earlier.

Zillow ZORI$1,5802026-06-30

All homes and bedroom counts

Census ACS gross rent$1,042ACS 2024 5-year

Occupied rental units paying rent

HUD 2BR FMR$1,265FY2026 FMR

Two-bedroom standard

These figures are not averaged together. Zillow and Realtor describe asking-rent markets, ACS measures rent paid by surveyed households, and HUD publishes administrative bedroom standards.

Exact county schedules

HUD rent benchmarks inside Coos Bay

Every row keeps its own county FIPS schedule. No county is selected as a metro proxy and no synthetic metro FMR is calculated.

FY2026 FMR · FY2026 · monthly gross-rent standards
CountyStudio1 BR2 BR3 BR4 BR
Coos County, ORFIPS 41011$951$982$1,265$1,759$2,122
The read

Why this market scores where it does

Coos Bay is a selective-investigation market for buyers who can verify insurance and underwrite conservatively; income-focused investors attracted by recent rent strength may investigate, while buyers dependent on rapid appreciation or strong employment growth should avoid it.

The opportunity is a $1,580 median asking rent against a $354,901 median home value, a 5.34% gross yield. Asking rent rose 9.75% year over year while home value fell 2.01%, improving the entry-income relationship on current measures. Net migration was positive at 106 households, but that is a modest demand signal rather than proof of depth.

Risks are not marginal: jobs slipped 0.1% year over year, rent absorbs 30.51% of median income, and the climate component scored 5 with earthquake as the dominant hazard. Supply is not visibly tight either, with 5.6 months available. Buyers need property-level confirmation of achievable rent, coverage cost and resale liquidity before treating rent momentum as durable.

Frequently Asked Investor Questions

What does the median asking rent imply relative to home value?
A $1,580 monthly asking rent against a $354,901 median home value corresponds to the published 5.34% gross yield.
Are local demand signals aligned?
They are mixed: net migration was positive at 106 households, while LAUS jobs fell 0.1% year over year.
What property hazard is identified?
Earthquake is the dominant hazard, and the climate loss ratio is 0.003871 of building value per year.

Investor Quick Takeaways

Gross Yield: 5.3%

Computed from the current Zillow rent and home-value medians.

Rent Momentum: ▲ 9.75%

Zillow ZORI rent growth trend over trailing 12 months.

Investor Activity: 4.3%

Originated investment purchase share (CFPB HMDA).

Climate Exposure: FEMA NRI

Annualized loss ratio evaluated for flood & hurricane risk.

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Market pulse

The current market in eight signals

Fast-moving Redfin conditions sit beside the slower fundamentals so a buyer can separate today's negotiating climate from the long-run investment case.

Months of supply5.6 mo.▲ from 5.1 mo. a year ago
Median days on market27 days▲ from 23 days a year ago
Listings with price drops33.1%▼ from 36.6% a year ago
Sale-to-list ratio98.0%2026-05-01
Home value growth▼ 2.0%Zillow ZHVI · trailing 12 months
Rent growth▲ 9.75%Zillow ZORI · trailing 12 months
Gross rental yield5.3%Rent × 12 ÷ price
Payroll job growth▼ 0.1%LAUS · 12m to 2026-05
Release-to-release evidence

What actually changed

This comparison exists because at least one underlying source period advanced. Rebuilding the same data never creates a new observation.

Published score held steady4848
0 pts

The published component scores did not move in this release.

Weights were unchanged at metro-2026-07-v2-omb2023, so the movement comes from refreshed evidence and percentile ranks.

The named source periods advanced, but the measured values on this page held steady.

Composite breakdown

What each component measures

Weights are published, not hidden, and the arithmetic is shown. Five components, each measured as a national percentile across all tracked metros.

Jobs50Rent trend96Affordability17Supply39Climate safety5
Published arithmeticComponent × weight = points
48
SignalScoreWeightPoints
Job growth5030%15.00
Rent trend9625%24.00
Affordability1715%2.55
Supply pressure3915%5.85
Climate risk515%0.75
Published score48
Coos Bay, OR scoreRank #299
48
Job growth50/100

LAUS jobs fell 0.1% year over year -> the employment signal does not reinforce the positive rent trend.

Rent trend96/100

Asking rent rose 9.75% year over year and gross yield is 5.34% -> current asking-rent metrics are the clearest opportunity signal.

Affordability17/100

Rent equals 30.51% of median income and price-to-income is 5.71 -> affordability is strained for tenants and buyers.

Supply pressure39/100

Months of supply is 5.6 and the price-drop share is 33.12% -> buyers have visible resale choice and negotiating room.

Climate risk5/100

The climate component scores 5, with earthquake the dominant hazard -> insurance terms and property-level exposure are critical diligence items.

The numbers

What this market costs and what it earns

Every derived ratio below recomputes from the same source record used by the article and score.

ZHVI Median Price
$355k
YoY ▼ 2.0%
ZORI Median Rent
$1,580
YoY ▲ 9.75%
Gross Rental Yield
5.3%
Rent × 12 ÷ price
$1,580 × 12 ÷ $354,901
Job Growth (YoY)
▼ 0.1%
LAUS payrolls
Job signal 50/100
Median Household Income
$62k
Census ACS 5-year
Rent Burden
30.5%
Annual rent ÷ household income
Price-to-Income
5.7x
Median value ÷ household income
HUD 2BR Fair Market Rent
$1,265
Market rent 124.9% of FMR
Historical affordability context

Compare aligned 2019 and 2024 asking-rent and nominal household-income endpoints across the direct-overlap metro set.

Independent rent evidence

One market, several legitimate rent benchmarks

These releases observe different homes and different moments. RentMarker keeps them separate: ZORI remains the scoring baseline, while the other sources test how sensitive the market story is to bedroom mix and measurement method.

Monthly benchmark4 of 4 reported values
Zero-based scale
Monthly rental benchmarksIndependent monthly rent measures shown on a zero-based scale. Missing source values are labelled unavailable and are not inferred.$0$438$875$1,313$1,750Zillow ZORI2026-06-30$1,580HUD 1BR FMRFY2026 FMR$982HUD 2BR FMRFY2026 FMR$1,265Census ACS gross rentACS 2024 5-year$1,042Monthly rental benchmarksIndependent monthly rent measures shown on a zero-based scale. Missing source values are labelled unavailable and are not inferred.$0$875$1,750Zillow ZORI2026-06-30$1,580HUD 1BR FMRFY2026 FMR$982HUD 2BR FMRFY2026 FMR$1,265ACS gross rentACS 2024 5-year$1,042
The chart compares published levels without averaging them. A longer bar does not mean a source is more accurate; it means that source measures a higher rent under its own definition.
Typical observed market rentZillow ZORI
$1,580Primary RentMarker baseline
2026-06-30

All homes and bedroom counts

A smoothed metro rent index for observed rentals; it is the primary rent used by RentMarker scores and career ratios.

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Fair Market RentHUD 1BR FMR
$982−$598 vs ZORI
FY2026 FMR

One-bedroom standard

An administrative gross-rent benchmark used by HUD programs; it is neither a listing median nor a prediction of one lease.

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Fair Market RentHUD 2BR FMR
$1,265−$315 vs ZORI
FY2026 FMR

Two-bedroom standard

An administrative gross-rent benchmark used by HUD programs; it is neither a listing median nor a prediction of one lease.

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Median gross rentCensus ACS gross rent
$1,042−$538 vs ZORI
ACS 2024 5-year

Occupied rental units paying rent

A five-year survey estimate of contract rent plus applicable tenant-paid utilities; it is not a current asking-rent index.

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Take the next step

Keep Coos Bay as context, then replace market-wide evidence with the candidate property's facts.

Supply pipeline

What is being built, and for whom

Permits are the 12-to-24 month early warning. The total matters less than the mix: apartments compete with a rental the day they open.

National supply context

Compare this authorization pipeline with asking-rent growth, jobs and for-sale liquidity across the evidence-complete metro set.

Building permits by structure type
units per year · latest year annualised
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11320245920259420265+ unit buildingssingle family
94 units authorised in 2026, 0% of them in 5+ unit buildings. This is a single-family building cycle, so the competition is other houses, not new apartments. ✓ recomputed from series
Source: Census Building Permits Survey
Who is arriving, and who is buying

Demand, and the competition for it

Tax filings say how many households moved and what they earn; mortgage disclosures say how many local purchases went to someone who will not live there. Moves between counties inside this metro are netted out of both flow figures.

Net Household Move
+106
1,639 in vs 1,533 out (IRS SOI)
▲ 6.5% of arriving households
Mover Income Gap
+$6,955
Arriving $61,239 vs leaving $54,284
Average AGI per tax return (IRS SOI)
Investor Purchase Share
4.3%
28 of 647 originated purchase loans
CFPB HMDA 2024
Dominant Hazard
earthquake
0.387% building value annual loss ratio
FEMA NRI · risk type: other
Compare yield and FEMA exposure →
Households arrive mainly from: Douglas County · Lane County · Curry County · Jackson County · Multnomah County
1,639 in − 1,533 out = 106 net
Direct market links

Where tax-return households moved from and to

These are the largest flows where both counties map to a RentMarker market area. They are a documented subset of the all-US IRS totals above.

Explore every route
Leading inbound markets
  1. Roseburg, OR108 arriving
  2. Portland, OR105 arriving
  3. Eugene, OR102 arriving
Leading outbound markets
  1. Roseburg, OR141 leaving
  2. Eugene, OR139 leaving
  3. Portland, OR89 leaving
The other side

What would make this a bad buy

Generated from the same figures with the instruction to argue against the score, and published unedited. A page that only agrees with itself is an advertisement.

Three ways the case breaks

  1. LAUS jobs fell 0.1% year over year, leaving the employment signal negative.
  2. Home value fell 2.01% year over year, and 33.12% of listings show price drops.
  3. Earthquake is the dominant hazard, alongside a climate component score of 5.
Statistical peers

Market areas that behave like Coos Bay

Nearest neighbours on price level, income, yield and job growth — not on geography. Every market page gets a different peer set, which is the point.

Market areaScorePriceRentYieldJob Growth
Coos Bay, OR (Target)48$355k$1,5805.3%▼ 0.1%
Klamath Falls, OR38$316k$1,2744.8%▲ 0.1%
Tullahoma, TN39$321k$1,4945.6%▲ 0.3%
Sevierville, TN52$410k$1,6985.0%▲ 0.2%
Butte, MT45$293k$1,3345.5%▼ 0.2%
Provenance

Where every figure came from

“Checked nightly” means every source is re-pulled and re-verified each night. It does not mean every source moves nightly — the release column tells you how fresh each number can possibly be.

Dataset SourceMethodRelease PeriodPulled Date
Census ACS 5-year — household income and gross rentdirectACS 2024 5-year2026-08-05
Census ACS 5-year — historical household incomedirectACS 2019 and 2024 5-year2026-08-05
Census ACS 5-year — populationdirectACS 2024 5-year2026-07-26
Apartment List Rent Estimates — recent-lease rent indexdirectApartment List 2026-072026-08-08
Apartment List Time on Market — listing liquiditydirectApartment List 2026-072026-08-08
Apartment List Vacancy Index — rental vacancydirectApartment List 2026-072026-08-08
BEA County Personal Income — income and populationdirect2024 County Personal Income (released 2026-02-05); history 1969-20242026-08-03
BEA Regional Price Parities — metropolitan price levelsdirect2024 Regional Price Parities (released 2026-02-19); history 2008-20242026-08-03
BLS CES — payroll employmentdirectCES SM current2026-07-26
BLS LAUS — resident employmentdirectLAUS current2026-07-26
BLS OEWS — occupation employment and wagesdirectMay 2025 OEWS estimates (released 2026-05-15)2026-08-03
BLS QCEW — county employment and wagesdirectannual county employment and wages 2021-2025; latest 2025 vs 20242026-08-02
OMB/BLS delineation — metro geographydirectOMB July 2023 delineation2026-07-30
Census Building Permits Survey — permitted unitsdirectBPS through 20262026-07-26
Census ACS 5-year — city population, households and housingdirectACS 2024 5-year2026-07-29
Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stockdirectACS 2024 5-year2026-07-30
Census ACS 5-year — cities and communitiesdirectACS 2024 5-year2026-07-30
Census ACS five-year — ZCTA housing and incomedirectACS 2024 5-year ZCTA2026-08-08
FEMA National Risk Index — hazard loss ratiosmodelledNRI counties (FEMA ArcGIS)2026-07-26
FHFA House Price Index — annual county appreciationdirectannual county HPI history 1975-2025; latest 20252026-08-02
HMDA / CFPB — purchases by occupancy typedirectHMDA 2024 purchase originations2026-07-26
HUD CHAS — renter burden by HAMFI income banddirectHUD CHAS 2018-2022 ACS 5-year (released 2025-12-23)2026-08-03
HUD Fair Market Rents — Section 8 standarddirectFY2026 FMR2026-07-26
HUD USPS crosswalk and Small Area FMRs — ZIP rent fallbackdirectZIP-CBSA 2025Q4 + SAFMR FY20262026-07-26
HUD-USPS ZIP-to-county residential-address crosswalkdirectHUD-USPS 2026Q12026-08-09
IRS SOI — county migration and mover incomedirectSOI migration 2022-20232026-07-26
Freddie Mac PMMS — mortgage ratesdirectweek of 2026-07-302026-08-06
Census ACS 5-year — effective property taxdirectACS 2024 5-year2026-08-06
Realtor.com Economic Research — county listing inventorydirectcounty inventory 2026-062026-07-28
Realtor.com Rental Report — top-50 asking rentsdirecttop-50 rental asking rents 2026-052026-08-05
Redfin Data Center — inventory, days on market, and price cutsdirectmetro tracker through 2026-05-012026-07-26
Redfin Data Center — ZIP resale activity and supplydirectZIP rolling 3 months through 2026-06-30; updated 2026-07-032026-08-12
USDA ERS — Rural-Urban Continuum CodesdirectUSDA ERS 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes2026-08-02
Zillow ZHVI and ZORI — county values and rentsdirectcounty ZHVI/ZORI 2026-062026-07-26
Zillow ZHVI — metro home valuesdirectMetro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv2026-07-26
Zillow ZHVI — city home valuesdirectzillow_zhvi_city.csv2026-07-29
Zillow ZORI — metro market rentsdirectMetro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_sa_month.csv2026-07-26
Zillow ZORI — city market rentsdirectzillow_zori_city.csv2026-07-29
Zillow ZORI - metro market rents, not seasonally adjusteddirectMetro_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv2026-08-15
Zillow ZORI — ZIP market rentsdirectZORI ZIP 2026-062026-08-08