Glide, Oregon.
Typical home $375,186 (-0.3% in a year). Roseburg, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,085 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,292 -0%
- $376,478$375,186 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,662 +14%
- $328,524$375,186 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.
- Glide$1,969
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Glide, OR fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glide, Douglas County, Oregon
Glide, in Douglas County, had 1,805 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glide is a small community in Douglas County, Oregon, where the Little River meets the North Umpqua. Homes here are valued above what the typical Douglas County income might comfortably suggest, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Winters are cold and wet, with some snow each year, and summers turn quite warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in Glide include the Glide school district, Caddock Electronics, which makes electronic resistors, and the Forest Service. Across Douglas County, unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The Little River runs in or beside town, and Cavitt Creek Falls and Wolf Creek Falls are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, the North Umpqua River is a longer drive away, and so is Wildlife Safari, a zoo. With about this much rain and snow through the year, the falls are well suited to a visit when the weather allows.
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- 756households
- 5%below the poverty line
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 44° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 50°. About 12 inches of snow and 61 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Idleyld Park Northeast weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glide
- Glide SD 12School district112FTE
- Caddock ElectronicsResistors, electronic, manufacturing98
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture78
- Romtec UtilitesPumps, industrial and commercial-type, general purpose, manufacturing31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 129 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glide’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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.
Glide home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glide$375,186
- 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.
- Glide12
Zip codes with a Glide address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glide — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.