Azalea, Oregon.
. Roseburg, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,249 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
Living in Azalea, Douglas County, Oregon
The Census does not count Azalea on its own, so the figures here are Douglas County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,310 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Douglas County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Douglas County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Azalea is a small town in Douglas County in southwestern Oregon. Across Douglas County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is well into middle age. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and a meaningful share of households live in poverty.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, or restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs dipped slightly over the past year. Most people still travel to a workplace, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. Galesville Reservoir is a short drive away and makes a convenient outing for the water. Farther off, Big Butte Creek is a river, and Wildlife Safari is a zoo, both a longer drive from town. The weather is cool in winter with little snow and a good deal of rain, and summers are hot.
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- 47,519households
- 46.5median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Douglas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 38,364 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 51° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 54°. About 2 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Riddle weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Douglas County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs861
- Mercy Medical CenterGeneral hospital855FTE
- Douglas County SD 4School district818FTE
- Umpqua Indian DevelopmentHotels, resort, with casinos742
- Roseburg Forest productsWoodproducts manufacturing475
- Roseburg Forest productsWoodproducts manufacturing398
- Umpqua Community CollegeTwo-year college356
- Orenco SystemsPumps, industrial and commercial-type, general purpose, manufacturing300
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 101 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,005 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Douglas County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Douglas County and the Roseburg, OR metro.
Azalea home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Azalea address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Azalea — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.