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Plumbing Inspection in Oregon

Across the 100 Oregon towns we route calls in, 23% of owner households moved in during 2018 or later. Every one of those sales came with an inspection, and every one of those inspections excluded the same list of things.

The one-paragraph answer

Owner turnover across the 100 covered towns in Oregon runs at 23% since 2018. What a standard inspection covers is fixed by the published standards of practice, and the drain line beyond the house is outside them.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038.

PresalePipe is a referral service, not a contractor or a home inspector. We connect homeowners and buyers with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no inspections and no work, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

Turnover across Oregon

Towns in OregonCount
Change hands often (28% of owners or more since 2018)13
About the middle (16–28%)69
Rarely change hands (under 16%)18

The spread inside the state is the point. Brightwood is highest at 50% of owners having arrived since 2018; Wasco is lowest at 4%. A state figure describes neither of them.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038, 2023 release. Weighted across 1,063,172 occupied housing units, of which 651,537 are owner-occupied. This measures recent moves as a share of the housing stock, not sales per year.

The largest towns we route in Oregon

TownOwners who moved in since 2018Occupied homes
Portland24%402,447
Salem24%94,972
Beaverton22%81,556
Hillsboro22%38,580
Gresham22%32,249
Corvallis18%28,859
Albany24%25,842
Oregon City23%20,899

What is excluded, everywhere

The exclusions do not vary by state. Both InterNACHI and ASHI describe the inspection as covering readily accessible, visually observable systems and state that it is not technically exhaustive. Both exclude wells and pumps, septic and wastewater treatment, water quality and potability, fire sprinklers and gas leak testing. InterNACHI additionally names water flow and pressure, floor drains, shower pan testing and polybutylene piping.

What varies by town is how many people here have recently had a report in their hands to read the exclusions in. The full list is on its own page.

Source: InterNACHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice; ASHI Standard of Practice.

Checking a plumber in Oregon

Checking a credential in Oregon

Oregon licenses are issued by the Oregon Building Codes Division, Department of Consumer and Business Services, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. Plumbing businesses in Oregon must also hold a Construction Contractors Board license, which is a separate search.

Towns we route in Oregon

Inspection report in front of you?Read us the plumbing lines and nothing else — we do not want the document. We will route you to a contractor covering your area who can quote the items on it, and you are never charged by us. Inspections are the theme here; calls of every kind are routed.

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