Gresham's median home price sits at $398,000, 5% below the $420,000 national median. On a $65,000 median household income, that puts the price-to-income ratio at 6.1x, or 6.1 years of gross pay for the purchase price alone.
At a 0.92% effective rate, Gresham property taxes add $305 to the monthly payment on the median home, $3,662 a year in total.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, Oregon taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $2,556/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Gresham track at 130 against the national 100 baseline, above average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Gresham's median home price runs 22% lower than nearby Portland: $510,000 there versus $398,000 here.