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Place dossier plate
SheetOR-ROSEBURG-OR · Roseburg, OR 23,773 pop · income 24th pct · 30 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Roseburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Roseburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bayonet Point · lowest
42,157
Bayonet Point · lowest
42,157 median HH income
35.0% of the leader · rank #1
Rocky Mount · near
52,927
Rocky Mount · near
52,927 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #2
Humble · near
52,927
Humble · near
52,927 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #3
Roseburg · this city
52,928
Roseburg · this city
52,928 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #4
North Belle V… · near
52,928
North Belle V… · near
52,928 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #5
Roscoe · near
52,935
Roscoe · near
52,935 median HH income
44.0% of the leader · rank #6
Happy Valley · highest
120,324
Happy Valley · highest
120,324 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Roseburg on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 23,773.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Roseburg - the verdict
Nationally, Roseburg sits in the 24th percentile for household income and the 7th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
24th
percentile, household income
59th
percentile, home value
66th
percentile, median rent
7th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Roseburg, OR
Oregon's Roseburg is a small city, with 23,773 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Roseburg report a median income of $52,928 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 13.9%. Typical homes in Roseburg are valued around $266,600, and the median resident age is 39.8 years. 21.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 48.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Roseburg's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 3983.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Oregon carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Oregon scores 103.4 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,425 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Oregon's average monthly utility costs around $185 (state average). The average commute for Roseburg workers runs 12.6 minutes, with 71.6% driving alone and 8.4% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 63.4 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Roseburg's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from comparison shortlist to housing and income to within-city variation to population change to schools and households to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Roseburg, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Roseburg?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Oregon, the closest population matches are Hayesville (22,309 residents, $59,299 income); Happy Valley (25,572 residents, $120,324 income); Newberg (25,622 residents, $91,389 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Webster Groves, MO (23,771 residents); Belton, TX (23,769 residents); Fountain Hills, AZ (23,768 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
How far does income reach against housing in Roseburg?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
PlainCities matches 30 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Is Roseburg growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +38 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.2% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Roseburg?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 14 public schools within the city match. 21.3% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
13.9%
Bachelor's degree+
21.3%
Matched public schools
14
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Roseburg?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3983.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 75% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
3983.8
Violent rate
217.4
Property rate
3766.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Roseburg?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 12.6 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Drive alone
71.6%
Work from home
8.4%
Public transit
0.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 9,102 workers age 16+.
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Violent crime D
217 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living F
103.4 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income F
$52,928
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Roseburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 217 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 38/100 (F) · 21.3%
Poverty rate: 25/100 (F) · 13.9%
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Household income: 24/100 (F) · $52,928
Where Roseburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Roseburg's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Roseburg highlighted among 27 peers.Read the chart values
Roseburg, OR (this city): home $266,600, crime 3,984/100k
Webster Groves, MO : home $371,400, crime 769/100k
Belton, TX : home $252,000, crime 2,036/100k
Highland, IN : home $219,500, crime 1,694/100k
Burlington, IA : home $115,800, crime 2,239/100k
Klamath Falls, OR : home $257,400, crime 3,172/100k
Ashland, OR : home $573,700, crime 2,019/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Roseburg compare to other US cities?
Roseburg measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income24% higher than other cities
Home value59% pricier than other cities
Median rent66% pricier than other cities
Safety7% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Oregon, Roseburg ranks #80 of 85 Oregon cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Roseburg against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Oregon only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Oregon-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Roseburg near the bottom of Oregon's cities
Among the 395 Oregon cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Roseburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Roseburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#291 of 364
20th percentile in Oregon
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 395
0th percentile in Oregon
Median Home Value
#260 of 366
29th percentile in Oregon
Poverty Rate
#65 of 395
83rd percentile in Oregon
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#208 of 395
47th percentile in Oregon
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Oregon only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
24th percentile nationally for median household income · 7th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Roseburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Roseburg's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Roseburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$266,60041st percentilemore affordable than 41% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Roseburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#12,950 of 15,516
More affordable than 17% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,626 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.0×, Roseburg sits in the pressured band:
national rank #12,950 of 15,516 and #2,626 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$52,928Roseburg, OR median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Roseburg, OR median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Roseburg, OR.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)48.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
23,773
Median Income
$52,928
Median Home Value
$266,600
Median Age
39.8
Poverty Rate
13.9%
Labor force participation
48.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3983.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
217.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3766.4
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Roseburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
23,655 residents
2021
23,824 residents
2022
23,811 residents
2023
23,827 residents
2024
23,802 residents
2025
23,693 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
12.6 minutes
Drive Alone
71.6%
Carpool
15.1%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
3.3%
Work from Home
8.4%
Other
0.9%
Based on 9,102 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Oregon statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $185
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Oregon at $185 (electricity about $85 , water and sewer about $50 ).
These are Oregon statewide averages, not a meter reading for Roseburg. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Oregon's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Roseburg is $1,425/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Oregon statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 63.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Oregon statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Roseburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Roseburg compares to similar-size Oregon cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.