What salary do you need to live in Grants Pass, OR?

Rent, home values and prices in Grants Pass

Median gross rent, meaning contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities, runs $784, $1,144 and $1,620 a month for one, two and three bedrooms across Grants Pass, OR. The largest of those is 107% more than the smallest.

The median value of owner-occupied homes in the metro is $404,300. Local median household income is $60,098, so the median home is 6.7× a typical income — high enough that ownership weighs heavily in the score unless income is well above the median.

The Regional Price Parity, BEA's index of local prices with the US at 100, is 97.8 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in Grants Pass has the buying power of roughly $102,291 at national average prices.

Grants Pass: the pre-tax income for each grade

For two bedrooms, $178,000 is where Grants Pass turns Comfortable. Below that, $88,000 marks the start of Okay and $44,000 the start of Tight; under $44,000 the score reads Stretched. Rent at the Comfortable line is 8% of gross pay.

The Royal grade is within reach at $452,000 a year, where both rent and the median home price look small next to income.

Each figure is the lowest income, to the next $1,000, at which the calculator itself would show that grade for a two-bedroom in Grants Pass.

Four salaries, three home sizes in Grants Pass

Take a $75,000 salary. In a one-bedroom the rent share is 13% and the score 46, Okay; in a three-bedroom the share rises to 26% and the score falls to 35, Tight.

None of the four salaries reaches Comfortable for two bedrooms; even $150,000 scores 60, Okay, which fits the $178,000 line above.

How Grants Pass ranks among 387 metros

Out of 387 metros, Grants Pass has the 117th highest price parity and the 177th highest two-bedroom rent, which puts it near the middle on overall prices and in the middle half on rent.

For a sense of scale, the metros just above and below it on two-bedroom rent are Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN ($1,148) and Memphis, TN-MS-AR ($1,143).

Grants Pass next to Oregon and similar metros

Compared with Oregon as a whole, two-bedroom rent in Grants Pass is 25% lower ($1,144 vs. $1,523) and the median home is 15% lower ($404,300 vs. $477,600).

Run Oregon's statewide medians through the same score and Comfortable begins at $255,000; Grants Pass's line is −30% from that.

Looking for somewhere comparable without leaving Oregon? Albany, OR, Medford, OR, and Eugene-Springfield, OR have the closest mix of rent and overall prices.

The median Grants Pass household

A household at the Grants Pass median income of $60,098 would see a two-bedroom score of 34 — Tight — with rent at 23% of income. Put differently, Grants Pass's typical household is $117,902 below the $178,000 it takes to read Comfortable on two bedrooms. Statewide, the Oregon median household ($83,011) grades Tight on the state's own medians. Keep in mind a household median often combines two incomes.

Estimates use pre-tax income and public data; they are not financial advice.