Toilet Repair in Oregon

Weighted across 1,063,172 occupied homes. Separately, 60% of the state’s 1,119,134 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 100 towns we route in here, 5 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 17 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 38 are strongly owner-occupied and 7 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

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.

• Albany 63% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Alsea 64% owner-occupied · 81% pre-1990
• Amity 67% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Aumsville 84% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Aurora 82% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Banks 88% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Beavercreek 93% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Beaverton 56% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Blodgett 95% owner-occupied · 67% pre-1990
• Boring 88% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
• Brightwood 95% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Brownsville 84% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Canby 72% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Carlton 78% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Cascade Locks 78% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Clackamas 63% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Clatskanie 81% owner-occupied · 76% pre-1990
• Cloverdale 73% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Colton 92% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Columbia City 90% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Corbett 82% owner-occupied · 75% pre-1990
• Cornelius 74% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Corvallis 49% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Dallas 72% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Damascus 93% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Dayton 85% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Deer Island 98% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Donald 88% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
• Dufur 71% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Dundee 87% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Eagle Creek 81% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Estacada 82% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Fairview 47% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Falls City 77% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Forest Grove 65% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Gales Creek 87% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Gaston 90% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Gates 91% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Gervais 87% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Gladstone 64% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Grand Ronde 38% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Gresham 59% owner-occupied · 61% pre-1990
• Halsey 78% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Happy Valley 64% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Hillsboro 57% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Hood River 67% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Hubbard 76% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Independence 62% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Jefferson 82% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Lafayette 89% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Lake Oswego 69% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Lebanon 69% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Lyons 91% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Maupin 67% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• McMinnville 65% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Mill City 74% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Molalla 71% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Monmouth 54% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Mosier 73% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Mount Angel 54% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Mount Hood Parkdale 71% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Mulino 92% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Newberg 66% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• North Plains 81% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Ontario 62% owner-occupied · 74% pre-1990
• Oregon City 75% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Philomath 76% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Portland 56% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Rainier 73% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Rhododendron 92% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
• Rickreall 49% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
• Saint Helens 65% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Saint Paul 64% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
• Salem 58% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Sandy 83% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Scappoose 77% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Scio 83% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Scotts Mills 90% owner-occupied · 70% pre-1990
• Shedd 77% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
• Sheridan 72% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Sherwood 77% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Silverton 68% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Stayton 65% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Sublimity 77% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Sweet Home 72% owner-occupied · 68% pre-1990
• Tangent 67% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• The Dalles 64% owner-occupied · 77% pre-1990
• Troutdale 67% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Tualatin 59% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Turner 86% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Tygh Valley 82% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Vernonia 83% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
• Warren 93% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Wasco 72% owner-occupied · 80% pre-1990
• Welches 77% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• West Linn 85% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Willamina 71% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Wilsonville 52% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Woodburn 67% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Yamhill 83% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990