Your Guide to Buying a Home in Bend, OR

Buying a Home in Bend, Oregon

Bend is located in Deschutes County

At an elevation of 3,625 feet, Bend is a city of 70,328, located at the foothills of central Oregon's Cascade Mountains. Bend is noted for its scenic setting, mild climate, year-round recreation and growing economy. Bend is a land of extremes and contrasts - desert and forest, lava and snow, volcanoes and plains, rustic and urban hip. Everyone here mixes and mingles in a big happy soup pot of snowboarders and professionals, families in shorts and sandals and couples in casual chic, locals and visitors. Maybe that's why people in Bend are so friendly - because most of them were visitors first, too.

Bend, county seat of Deschutes County, is the sixth-fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States, according to Census estimates released in September 2005 (Source - U.S. Census Bureau).  Bend covers 32 square miles. To the east is high desert vegetation and to the west, Bend is surrounded by U.S. Forest Service land. The city is noted for its scenic setting, mild climate, year-round recreation opportunities and growing economy. At an elevation of 3,625 feet, Bend enjoys the predominately dry climate of the Great Basin. Sunny days, cool nights and low humidity characterize the weather.

information provided courtesy of the City of Bend