Cost of Living in Cannon Beach
Cannon Beach runs genuinely expensive by any Oregon Coast standard, layered with Oregon's real progressive income tax (topping out at 9.9%) and Clatsop County's moderate effective property tax rate.
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Learn moreGenuinely the most expensive housing on the Oregon Coast
Cannon Beach's average home value ran $932,323 (up 2.5% year-over-year), with median SOLD prices carrying a real, wide, disclosed spread across sources and time windows ($845,000 to $1.2 million) -- genuinely the highest of any town on the Oregon Coast per this pass's sourcing.
Near-zero practical rental availability
Census-derived median gross rent ran $1,179 in 2024, but this figure understates the real, practical scarcity: locals who need long-term housing overwhelmingly own rather than rent, since a real, disclosed 66% of the housing stock is second homes.
Oregon's real progressive income tax and zero sales tax
Oregon's real, current progressive income tax applies statewide, topping out at 9.9% across four brackets -- among the highest top marginal state income tax rates in the country -- alongside Oregon's genuine, complete absence of any state or local sales tax (0%, not merely low).
Clatsop County's moderate property tax rate, cushioned by Measure 50
Clatsop County's effective property tax rate carries a real, disclosed spread across sources (0.69%-0.82%). As with every Oregon market in this manifest, Ballot Measure 50 caps taxable assessed-value growth at roughly 3%/year, so most Cannon Beach homeowners pay tax on an assessed value well below the town's genuinely high market values.
Key takeaways
- Cannon Beach's average home value ran $932,323, with sold prices spreading $845,000-$1.2 million across sources.
- Practical long-term rental availability is genuinely scarce given the real, disclosed 66% second-home housing share.
- Oregon's real 9.9% top marginal income tax applies here, alongside Oregon's genuine zero sales tax.
- Clatsop County's 0.69%-0.82% effective property tax rate is cushioned by Oregon's Measure 50 assessed-value cap.
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