One of Oregon’s most expensive rental markets.
On Oct 29, 2026, the median asking rent in Deschutes County was $2,395. Of the 26 Oregon counties with at least 30 listings, only two asked more.
Each Oregon county is shaded by the median asking rent of the rentals listed with a price on Oct 29, 2026: darker teal is cheaper, coral is dearer. Counties with fewer than 30 listings are dotted; 4 had too few for a median and are hatched.
Deschutes County
Across 814 priced listings, from studios to four-bedroom houses. Half ask more than $2,395 a month; half ask less.
Third-highest in Oregon
Ranked, Deschutes sits 3rd. Only Tillamook ($2,450, 61 listings) and Hood River ($2,400, 58 listings) ask more, both much smaller markets. Among counties with 100 or more listings, Deschutes is first.
More than Portland’s county
Multnomah County, home to Portland and to 8,171 of the state's listings, has a median of $1,650 (15th). A Deschutes renter is asked $745 more a month, 45% more. Both medians come from the same listings, the same rules and the same day.
Switch between the map and the ranking, hover a county for its median and sample size, or pick another county to compare.
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| County | Median asking rent | Priced listings | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tillamook | $2,450 | 61 | 1 |
| Hood River | $2,400 | 58 | 2 |
| Deschutes | $2,395 | 814 | 3 |
| Curry | $2,000 | 27 | not ranked |
| Clackamas | $1,950 | 1,450 | 4 |
| Benton | $1,945 | 435 | 5 |
| Washington | $1,895 | 3,530 | 6 |
| Lincoln | $1,800 | 201 | 7 |
| Wasco | $1,798 | 74 | 8 |
| Morrow | $1,775 | 12 | not ranked |
| Columbia | $1,750 | 89 | 10 |
| Jackson | $1,750 | 1,209 | 9 |
| Jefferson | $1,723 | 50 | 11 |
| Linn | $1,700 | 420 | 12 |
| Yamhill | $1,700 | 286 | 13 |
| Clatsop | $1,695 | 198 | 14 |
| Multnomah | $1,650 | 8,171 | 15 |
| Lane | $1,645 | 1,678 | 16 |
| Crook | $1,623 | 76 | 17 |
| Polk | $1,600 | 160 | 18 |
| Coos | $1,500 | 176 | 19 |
| Josephine | $1,495 | 457 | 21 |
| Marion | $1,495 | 1,615 | 20 |
| Baker | $1,400 | 26 | not ranked |
| Wallowa | $1,400 | 13 | not ranked |
| Umatilla | $1,395 | 185 | 22 |
| Douglas | $1,300 | 318 | 23 |
| Klamath | $1,300 | 267 | 24 |
| Union | $1,250 | 91 | 25 |
| Malheur | $1,175 | 37 | 26 |
| Grant | $1,075 | 6 | not ranked |
| Lake | $1,000 | 8 | not ranked |
| Gilliam | — | 1 | not ranked |
| Harney | — | 0 | not ranked |
| Sherman | — | 2 | not ranked |
| Wheeler | — | 0 | not ranked |
Not ranked (fewer than 30 listings): Baker, Curry, Grant, Lake, Morrow, Wallowa. No median (fewer than 5): Gilliam, Harney, Sherman, Wheeler.
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814 rentals on the market.
Every mark below is one rental listed with a price in Deschutes County on Oct 29, 2026, ordered from the cheapest to the most expensive.
rentals with a price.
Apartments, houses, duplexes, manufactured homes: every listing Range Lab could see with an asking rent. It is what a household searching today would find.
But how many are affordable?
Take a household at half the area median income, HUD's “very low income” line. For a family of three that is $54,100 a year (FY2026). Spending 30% of income on rent, they could pay $1,353 for a two-bedroom.
Now test every listing against the rent HUD's limit allows for its size: $1,053 for a studio, rising to $1,744 for four bedrooms. Keep scrolling and watch the count fall.
Only five priced listings meet the 50% AMI threshold.
They are four one-bedrooms from $838 to $1,095 and one two-bedroom at $1,350. Three of them are vacancies in a single income-restricted, tax-credit building in La Pine.
That is 0.07 listings for every 100 renter households at or below half the area median, about one for every 1,530 of the county's 7,645 such households.
Try other income levels and unit sizes. At 80% of AMI, HUD's “low income” line, 371 listings qualify. Hover any mark for its rent and the limit it is tested against.
View the data as a table
| Unit size | Listings | Median rent | 50% AMI rent | Affordable at 50% | FY2027 FMR | At or below FMR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 17 | $1,595 | $1,053 | 0 | $1,438 | 4 |
| 1 bedroom | 93 | $1,850 | $1,128 | 4 | $1,447 | 19 |
| 2 bedrooms | 239 | $1,950 | $1,353 | 1 | $1,893 | 102 |
| 3 bedrooms | 382 | $2,595 | $1,563 | 0 | $2,621 | 202 |
| 4+ bedrooms | 79 | $3,800 | $1,744 | 0 | $3,164 | 25 |
| No bedroom count | 4 | — | — | — | — | — |
| All | 814 | $2,395 | — | 5 | — | 352 |
The income gap changes everything.
Affordability is rent measured against income. Which income you measure against changes the answer.
HUD’s area median income
HUD estimates a median family income for the Bend–Redmond area every year. Its income limits, the lines that decide who qualifies for most housing help, are percentages of it.
What renters here actually earn
The median renter household in Deschutes County earns $65,901 a year, by the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2020–2024).
Related, not interchangeable
The renter median is 55% of HUD's figure. They measure different groups: HUD's is a median for families (two or more related people, homeowners included), projected to the current year; the Census figure covers every renter household, including people living alone, over five years of surveys.
HUD's limits are shares of the area median, adjusted for household size. For four people: $36,050 at 30% (“extremely low income”), $60,100 at 50% (“very low”) and $96,150 at 80% (“low”). The median renter household lands between the 50% and 80% lines.
At 30% of income, HUD's median family could pay $3,005 a month; the median renter household $1,648; a family of four at half the area median $1,503. The median asking rent is $2,395.
What could you actually afford?
- HUD income limits depend on household size; the AMI rent for a unit depends on its bedrooms (HUD sizes them at 1.5 people per bedroom).
- Fair Market Rent depends on bedroom count, not on income.
- Affordable housing costs usually include utilities. Asking rents often don’t: add your own utility estimate, or read the result as an asking-rent-only comparison.
- An income you type in is not a HUD category. Programs check eligibility against HUD’s limit for your household size, shown beside your income.
The median two-bedroom listing asks $302 more a month than this budget.
Fair market doesn’t mean affordable.
HUD's Fair Market Rent says what a modest unit typically rents for. It says nothing about who can pay it.
three-bedroom rentals.
Listed with a price in Deschutes County on Oct 29, 2026: the homes a family with children would look for.
of 382 are at or below Fair Market Rent.
HUD's FY2027 Fair Market Rent for a three-bedroom here is $2,621, in effect since Oct. 1, 2026. By that benchmark, more than half the market looks within reach.
But affordable to whom?
HUD sizes a three-bedroom for four or five people. At half the area median income, that household earns about $62,525 a year (FY2026).
Thirty percent of that income is $1,563 a month. Watch the rent line slide from the Fair Market Rent down to what that family can pay.
Not one.
None of the 382 observed three-bedroom listings is affordable at 50% AMI. The cheapest asks $1,675, $112 over the line.
Switch between Fair Market Rent and the income-based line, for any unit size and income level.
Fair Market Rent is a housing-market benchmark used by HUD. It does not mean the rent is affordable for every household.
HUD sets FMR near the 40th percentile of rents paid, including utilities; advertised rents often leave utilities out, so a listing at the FMR can cost a tenant more. Being at or below FMR doesn’t by itself make a listing affordable or available to a voucher holder: the housing authority’s payment standard, the unit’s inspection and the landlord all decide that. The 202 listings at or below FMR are not affordable to households at 50% AMI.
Rents change. The gap remains.
Three years of Zillow's rent index, the rent the median renter household can afford, and Range Lab's own live median since Sept 26, 2026.
Zillow's rent index, Aug. 2026
Up from $2,046 in Sept. 2023: 8.7% in 3 years, 4.0% in the last twelve months.
The gap, every month
The dashed line is what the median renter household can pay at 30% of income: $1,648 (ACS 2020–2024, so it is held flat here). Zillow's index sits above it in every month on record.
Range Lab’s live median
Range Lab has tracked every priced listing here daily since Sept 26, 2026. Its median reads higher than Zillow's because it measures something else: the middle of what is advertised today, where Zillow smooths listed rents across the middle of the market and weights them to the whole rental stock.
The listings we see grew from 487 to 814 over those weeks as sources were added, so the daily line describes today's market, not a trend.
Multnomah, for comparison
Multnomah County's index rose 5.5% over the same 3 years and 0.7% in the last twelve months, to $1,694.
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| Month | Deschutes | Multnomah |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 2023 | $2,046 | $1,606 |
| Oct. 2023 | $2,057 | $1,608 |
| Nov. 2023 | $2,070 | $1,610 |
| Dec. 2023 | $2,087 | $1,613 |
| Jan. 2024 | $2,086 | $1,614 |
| Feb. 2024 | $2,087 | $1,619 |
| March 2024 | $2,095 | $1,624 |
| April 2024 | $2,093 | $1,632 |
| May 2024 | $2,096 | $1,635 |
| June 2024 | $2,087 | $1,643 |
| July 2024 | $2,096 | $1,645 |
| Aug. 2024 | $2,099 | $1,648 |
| Sept. 2024 | $2,104 | $1,654 |
| Oct. 2024 | $2,103 | $1,659 |
| Nov. 2024 | $2,102 | $1,663 |
| Dec. 2024 | $2,086 | $1,662 |
| Jan. 2025 | $2,096 | $1,664 |
| Feb. 2025 | $2,103 | $1,665 |
| March 2025 | $2,119 | $1,666 |
| April 2025 | $2,119 | $1,668 |
| May 2025 | $2,123 | $1,670 |
| June 2025 | $2,128 | $1,676 |
| July 2025 | $2,134 | $1,681 |
| Aug. 2025 | $2,138 | $1,683 |
| Sept. 2025 | $2,143 | $1,683 |
| Oct. 2025 | $2,149 | $1,683 |
| Nov. 2025 | $2,154 | $1,684 |
| Dec. 2025 | $2,169 | $1,687 |
| Jan. 2026 | $2,174 | $1,690 |
| Feb. 2026 | $2,178 | $1,690 |
| March 2026 | $2,173 | $1,691 |
| April 2026 | $2,184 | $1,691 |
| May 2026 | $2,195 | $1,693 |
| June 2026 | $2,209 | $1,692 |
| July 2026 | $2,214 | $1,692 |
| Aug. 2026 | $2,223 | $1,694 |
Finding the homes behind the numbers.
From the county-wide figures to the places themselves: where the listings are, where the income-restricted housing is, and where to find help.
206,334 people live in Deschutes County and 25,496 households rent (ACS 2024). Most live along US 97, from Redmond through Bend to La Pine, and west toward Sisters.
Each hexagon, about 1.6 km across, is shaded by how many priced listings fall inside it. 550 of the 814 listings carry map coordinates; cells with fewer than three aren't drawn.
By ZIP code, the most listings are in 97702 (204, median $2,600), 97701 (187, median $2,395), 97703 (184, median $2,600). A listing is an advertisement, not a count of every vacant home.
income-restricted rental properties
Range Lab's directory lists 60 properties open to anyone under their income limits, with 2,279 homes among the 52 that report a count. 49 have a mapped location. These are buildings, not vacancies; most fill from waitlists.
11 more are referral or care housing, for specific groups or filled through agencies (175 homes reported); the map shows them only as a count per town. 12 are in development, 872 homes planned, and aren't mapped until they open.
community services
Range Lab's directory lists 484 public services in the county, including 21 housing-assistance programs, 27 shelter and crisis services and 58 food programs.
Switch layers, zoom to a town, or open a property for its income limits and programs. Details and applications are on the Rental Search Tool.
View the data as a table
| ZIP | Priced listings | Median rent |
|---|---|---|
| 97702 | 204 | $2,600 |
| 97701 | 187 | $2,395 |
| 97703 | 184 | $2,600 |
| 97756 | 160 | $2,100 |
| 97739 | 32 | $1,800 |
| 97759 | 25 | $2,700 |
| 97707 | 15 | $2,600 |
| 97760 | 7 | $2,300 |
What would it take to close the gap?
No single number answers that. These measures sit side by side because each counts something different; none of them adds up with another.
Sept. 2025–Aug. 2026. 844 in buildings of five or more units; 2,239 in the 12 months before.
Permits are authorizations, not homes. Range Insights doesn't yet track starts or completions here.
Low-income homes in 30 projects; 587 placed in service in the last 10 years.
Properties open to anyone who qualifies, 2,279 homes where reported (52 of 60). Plus 11 referral or care properties.
872 homes planned. Not open yet, and not counted with the properties above.
In the Housing Choice Voucher program, plus 214 project-based homes.
Priced listings on Oct 29, 2026; 352 at or below FMR for their size, 5 affordable at 50% AMI.
11,994 of 23,912 renter households; 25% pay half their income or more.
3,115 of 4,385 renter households at or below 30% AMI pay more than half their income for housing.
What if more rentals were affordable?
Today 5 listings are affordable at 50% AMI, against 7,645 renter households at or below that income. Add hypothetical listings and watch the ratio.
A mathematical scenario, not a forecast, a production estimate or a policy model. Adding a property does not add one available home, and a listing is not a vacancy held for anyone.
5 listings ÷ 7,645 households × 100 · about one listing for every 1,529 households
Every figure on this page is frozen at Oct 29, 2026and recalculated from the listings and HUD’s published limits. Read how each was made, what was excluded and what we checked by hand.