Home Business in Oregon (2026)

Beaverton requires a Home Occupation Type 1 or Type 2 land-use permit for any home-based business, with the tier set by…

Home occupations in unincorporated Benton County are zoned by parcel size under BCC §§ 91.200-91.215: floor area caps…

Clackamas County ZDO 822 sets two tiers. A Level 1 minor home occupation needs no land use permit but must meet fixed…

The City of Corvallis allows a Home Business, including a small Bed and Breakfast, in any dwelling without a separate…

Eugene lets residents run a home occupation in any dwelling as long as it stays incidental to the home's residential…

Gresham allows a home-based business as an accessory home occupation in any dwelling and its garage in any residential…

Running a home-based business in Hillsboro requires a City business license and compliance with Community Development…

Rural Josephine County lets residents run small businesses from their homes under Josephine County Code § 19.92.030…

In the unincorporated county, home occupations are allowed by Lane Code Chapter 16 zoning. A minor home occupation must…

Rural Marion County offers two paths: a Limited Home Occupation, allowed by meeting set standards, and a Conditional…

Medford confines home-based businesses to the interior of the dwelling or an enclosed accessory structure, bans visible…

Unincorporated Multnomah County allows a Type A Home Occupation by ministerial registration in any base zone, with…

Portland allows home-based businesses as an accessory use in any residential zone under City Code Chapter 33.203, split…

Salem allows home occupations as a special use in residential zones under SRC 700.020, but confines the business to the…

In the City of Springfield, Oregon, Springfield Development Code section 4.7.365 allows a home business only as a…

In the City of Tigard, Oregon, a home occupation needs a Type I or Type II approval under Chapter 18.760. Only a…

Washington County requires a home occupation permit, renewed every year, before any home-based business operates in the…

Gresham bans all signage for home occupations: no sign may reveal a home business exists, and nothing visible from the…

In Lane County's Rural Residential (RR) zone, a minor home occupation or home office cannot display any advertising…

Unincorporated Multnomah County bars any signage for a registered Type A home occupation, while a Type B home…

Beaverton caps home-business signage at one name plate no larger than two square feet: no other exterior advertising…

A home occupation in unincorporated Benton County can't display any external evidence of the business except a sign…

For home occupations in unincorporated Clackamas County, ZDO 822 allows signs only as permitted under the county's sign…

Home Business use in the City of Corvallis may not display anything on the outside of the dwelling indicating a…

A Eugene home occupation is limited to one non-illuminated sign, capped at a maximum of two signs per dwelling and 1½…

A home business sign in Hillsboro is capped by the residential sign rules: 5 signs total per property, with one up to 6…

Sign size for a rural Josephine County home business depends on permit type. A Type I home occupation is limited to one…

A Springfield, Oregon home business allowed under the Development Code's home occupation rules, SDC section 4.7-165…

In the City of Tigard, Oregon, a Type I home occupation cannot display an exterior sign that identifies the property as…

A home-based business in unincorporated Washington County may display exactly one identification sign. In a…

Unincorporated Multnomah County limits home-business foot traffic: Type A home occupations allow two customers on-site…

In the City of Tigard, Oregon, a Type I home occupation cannot have clients or customers visit the premises for any…

Beaverton limits home-business client visits to 8 per day between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., and requires a Home Occupation…

Every home occupation in unincorporated Benton County, no matter the parcel size, is capped at 10 vehicle trips per day…

Eugene's EC 9.5350 Home Occupation Standards cap the traffic a home business can generate: it can't create excessive…

Gresham home occupations must set aside two dedicated on-site parking spaces beyond the dwelling's normal requirement…

Hillsboro caps home occupation customer traffic at an average of 10 vehicle trips per day, with no more than 2 customer…

Josephine County ties customer traffic to home occupation permit type. A Type I home occupation, JCC § 19.92.050(A)(4)…

Lane County bars home occupations from generating excessive traffic and requires customer and client contact to happen…

Medford caps combined residential and business vehicle trips to a home-based business at an average of 10 per day over…

Portland limits Type B home occupations to customer visits between 7 am and 9 pm, capping traffic at 15 customers or…

Salem's home occupation standard, SRC 700.020(f), requires that customer and client parking not create a hazard or…

In unincorporated Washington County, a home-based business's daily walk-in customer count is capped by which of three…

Corvallis limits how much traffic a Home Business can generate: Land Development Code § 1.6.30 standard (d) requires…

In the City of Springfield, Oregon, Springfield Development Code section 4.7.365(C)(5) bars a home business from…

Oregon lets a home kitchen sell food without any State Department of Agriculture license under ORS 616.723, provided…

Oregon's Cottage Food Exemption lets you sell non-potentially-hazardous baked goods and confections from your home…

Oregon's statewide Cottage Food Exemption lets residents make and sell certain low-risk foods from home with no ODA…

Oregon has no microenterprise home kitchen operation permit and no meal-count carve-out of the kind Ohio and California…

Oregon licenses family child care homes through the Department of Early Learning and Care under ORS 329A.250-329A.450…

Running a Beaverton home daycare that has parents or kids visiting requires a Home Occupation Two approval, capped at 8…

In unincorporated Benton County, family day care for fewer than 13 children is a permitted outright use in residential…

In the City of Corvallis, babysitting or caring for 16 or fewer children, including the caregiver's own resident family…

Eugene lets small day cares serving 4 to 16 people operate in residential zones under EC 9.5200, but at least one owner…

Lane Code 16.290 permits one home child care facility for up to ten children under 13, registered with the State under…

Medford licenses in-home child care as a home-based business, capping a "child day care home" at 16 children and…

In the City of Tigard, Oregon, family day care is allowed in the RES-A through RES-E residential zones, while every…

Home-based day care in Washington County's rural AF-10, AF-5 and RR-5 zoning districts is allowed as a Type II use…

In Rural Residential zones outside the Grants Pass and Cave Junction urban growth boundaries, § 19.61.020(F) of the…

A state-registered child day care home caring for up to 16 children, or an adult day care home for five or fewer…

Registered (up to 10 kids) and certified (up to 16 kids) family child care homes run by a resident are an accessory…

Small family child care homes in Hillsboro, licensed for 16 or fewer children, are exempt from the Community…

Family Day Care for 12 or fewer children run out of a residence is an allowed use, by right, in Multnomah County's…

Portland zoning exempts registered or certified family child care homes for up to 16 children from its accessory home…

In the City of Springfield, Oregon, a Family Child Care Home is listed as its own permitted land use in every…