Drain, Oregon.
Typical home $302,391 (-0.7% in a year). Roseburg, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$835 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,007 -1%
- $304,398$302,391 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,339 +10%
- $275,052$302,391 since Sep 2021
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.
- Drain$1,587
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Drain, OR fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Drain, Douglas County, Oregon
Drain is a city of 1,172 people in Douglas County. 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 Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Drain is a small city in Douglas County, Oregon, and a quiet one by almost any measure. Winters are cool and wet, with little or no snow, and summers turn warm in August. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, so the hills around town stay green. Homes here are valued below what many Oregon buyers would expect elsewhere in the state, and Pass Creek runs in or beside town.
Work. People who live in Drain work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Douglas County, some of the largest workplaces are Mercy Medical Center, Douglas County SD 4 and Roseburg Forest Products. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago. The typical commute is a long one, and nobody here works from home.
Things to do. Pass Creek, a river in or beside town, is the nearest water to visit. A longer drive brings you to Hayward Field, a well-known stadium, and to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The North Umpqua River is also a longer drive away, for those who like to spend time by moving water.
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- 31 mintypical commute
- 0%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 49° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 86° and lows near 51°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Drain weather station, under a mile 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 across the county; Drain has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Drain’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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.
Drain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Drain$302,391
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Drain9
Zip codes with a Drain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Drain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.