Riddle, Oregon.
Typical home $285,352 (+1.7% in a year). Roseburg, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$826 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,899 +2%
- $280,453$285,352 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,794 +15%
- $248,558$285,352 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.
- Riddle$1,498
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Riddle, OR rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riddle, Douglas County, Oregon
Riddle is a city of 1,214 people in Douglas County. Half its households earn more than $66,761 a year and half less, against $61,310 across Douglas County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riddle is a small city in Douglas County, Oregon, and a quiet one. Household incomes run above the county's, though a fair number of residents still live below the poverty line, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and wet with only a dusting of snow, and summers turn hot in August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment close behind. Across Douglas County, some of the largest workplaces are Mercy Medical Center, the Veterans Health Administration and Roseburg Forest Products. Jobs across the county have slipped slightly over the past year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago. The typical commute is about as long as a short drive across the county, and a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Cow Creek, a river in or beside town, is the closest water to explore. A short drive away, Myrtle Creek offers more riverside. Farther afield, the North Umpqua River and Wildlife Safari, a zoo, make good outings for a longer day.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%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, 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; Riddle 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Riddle’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.
Riddle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riddle$285,352
- 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.
- Riddle14
Zip codes with a Riddle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riddle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.