Woodburn Estates & Golf
Woodburn, Marion County, Oregon · Salem / Mid-Willamette Valley golf market
- Homes
- $250,000 – $450,000
- Age restricted
- 55+
- Housing
- single-family homes
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Woodburn Estates & Golf is an established age-55+ planned community in Woodburn, in Oregon's Mid-Willamette Valley (Marion County), built up around Senior Estates Golf and Country Club's 18-hole private course beginning in the early 1960s. It has grown to 1,510 privately owned homes -- a mix of smaller, older two-bedroom floor plans (roughly 625-1,616 square feet) and larger, course-adjacent properties -- organized under the same non-profit corporation that owns the golf course and clubhouse, so that community governance and golf-course ownership are structurally the same thing rather than two separate organizations. This is a materially different shape from a typical HOA-adjacent-to-a-privately-owned-club community: here, the residential association and the golf-owning entity are legally one and the same, and every homeowner is a co-owner of the course by virtue of buying a home.
Golf Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Golf access is not purchased separately -- it comes with the undivided ownership share every homeowner receives in the corporation that owns the course and clubhouse. The main non-golf gate to entry is the community's age-55+ occupancy rule and its home-purchase/transfer process, not a club application.
Living in Woodburn Estates & Golf
A mature, largely built-out community (not a new-construction development) with a wide price range from modest, older two-bedroom homes to larger course-adjacent properties, giving it a notably broader affordability range than most golf-bundled communities in this platform's dataset.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Centered on a roughly 26,000-square-foot clubhouse with an indoor pool, fitness center, tennis and pickleball courts, billiards, a library, and a 300-seat auditorium hosting dances and community dinners, plus the on-site Country Cottage Restaurant -- programming aimed squarely at year-round resident life rather than resort visitors.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located in Woodburn, Marion County, along the I-5 corridor roughly 20 minutes north of Salem and 30-45 minutes south of Portland.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old figure a current one.
Home price (low)
Current$250,000
Entry-level two-bedroom homes reported starting in the low $250,000s per aggregator/community-directory sourcing (55places-style listings), not a developer-published price list; treat as an illustrative current range rather than a comprehensive one, consistent with this research's general caution about aggregator-blended figures.
Home price (high)
Current$450,000
Larger or course-adjacent homes reported reaching roughly $450,000, with a community average around $340,000, per aggregator/community-directory sourcing; illustrative of the live market range, not a comprehensive or developer-published figure.
Secondary sourcing describes a one-time transfer/affiliation fee of roughly 1.5% of the resale price, paid to the corporation at purchase to formalize the buyer's undivided ownership share -- not confirmed via an official current fee schedule.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm the current mandatory annual assessment directly -- figures found in this research trace to circa-2014 data and are explicitly not current.
- Confirm the current one-time transfer/affiliation fee (reported at roughly 1.5% of price) directly.
- Confirm current gated/security status directly -- not established in this research.
Notable
- Community governance and golf-course ownership are structurally the same entity here -- the corporation that owns the course and clubhouse is also the community's HOA, an unusually direct bundling arrangement.
- At 1,510 homes, this is a mature, already-built-out community rather than a community still under active development.
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US Golf Living provides independent real-estate research and can connect consumers with real-estate professionals. Golf membership, availability, fees and approval are determined independently by the applicable club.