Roseburg, Oregon

Area Profile

23,778 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Roseburg, in Douglas County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity3492nd of 3,904 published cities35
SchoolsTop 39% of 2,668 published cities60
Housing affordability3230th of 4,223 published cities62
ClimateTop 22% of 4,223 published cities78
Physical resilience3700th of 4,182 published cities18
Access3919th of 4,226 published cities61
Economic stability3701st of 4,226 published cities36
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 6.2% and the Opportunity signal places Roseburg in the bottom 11%.

In the public schools here, 33% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 16.9 students for every teacher.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, earthquake and wildfire.

At a glance

Population
23,778
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$53,918
Bottom 29% nationally
Density
2,208/sq mi
10.8 sq mi of land
Median age
39.6
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Douglas County
Oregon
Metro area
Roseburg, OR
Nearest major airport
EUG
63 mi · Mahlon Sweet Fld
Median home value
$289,800
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 6.2% is lower than 6% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.6% over the past year, to 44,021 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,645$53,918Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,193$30,430Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate22.4%Top 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute17.0 minBottom 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher21.5%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment44,021Bottom 47%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.1%Top 46%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.6%Top 45%June 2026
Labor force46,924Bottom 48%June 2026
Labor force participation53.0%Bottom 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.0%Bottom 45%June 2026
Unemployment rate6.2%Top 6%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202454k48k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $53,918 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Douglas County, OR, which contains this city.

33% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 49% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.9 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
12
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
32.9%
Top 37% in Oregon
Reading proficiency
48.7%
Top 31% in Oregon
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Roseburg High SchoolDouglas County SD 41,58720.1
John C Fremont Middle SchoolDouglas County SD 465317.237%
Joseph Lane Middle SchoolDouglas County SD 458116.132%
Hucrest Elementary SchoolDouglas County SD 439417.135%65%
Eastwood Elementary SchoolDouglas County SD 439316.427%35%
Fullerton IV Elementary SchoolDouglas County SD 431916.815%55%
Melrose Elementary SchoolDouglas County SD 430215.975%65%
Green Elementary SchoolDouglas County SD 426214.610%35%
Fir Grove Elementary SchoolDouglas County SD 423813.235%45%
Phoenix School · charterDouglas County SD 415415.4
Lookingglass Elementary SchoolWinston-Dillard SD 11613113.120%30%
Horizons - Foster Ed ProgramDouglas ESD112.8

82.6% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Oregon’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,063 takes 24% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.4 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
23.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.4×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,063
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$289,800
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.37Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate53.8%Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±44210,343Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$71$1,063Top 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$22,507$289,800Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income23.7%Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.7%Bottom 27%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

Population has grown 1% since 2020, reaching 23,795 in 2024.

Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202424k24k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 86°F and January a low of 37°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 32.1 inches.

30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ROSEBURG RGNL AP, 1.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND6.0"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation32.1"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low37°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high86°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing29°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

18 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and wildfire.

WildfireHigh
EarthquakeElevated
Inland floodingHigh
Heat waveModerate
Volcanic activityModerate

Low or minimal exposure: landslide, winter weather, avalanche, ice storm, coastal flooding, lightning, tsunami, strong wind, hail, drought, tornado, cold wave.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Douglas County records 4.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 20.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 16.0 per 100,000 residents in Douglas County.

Homicide
4.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
20.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
16.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
27.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Douglas County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Roseburg rather than Roseburg itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 63 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mahlon Sweet FldEUG63 mi8,009 ft
Rogue Valley Intl/MedfordMFR63 mi8,800 ft
Portland IntlPDX168 mi11,000 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Roseburg

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
9747019,711$54,751