Winchester, Oregon.
Typical home $501,335 (+2.1% in a year). Roseburg, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,401 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,100 +2%
- $491,234$501,335 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,233 +19%
- $420,102$501,335 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.
- Winchester$2,631
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Winchester, OR rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Winchester, Douglas County, Oregon
The Census does not count Winchester 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Winchester is a small community in Douglas County, in the southwestern part of Oregon. Its winters are cold and its summers are warm, and the area gets a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year. The county's population is older than the country's as a whole, and more of its homes are lived in by their owners than across the nation.
Work. Across Douglas County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment has eased compared with the year before, though jobs in the county have dipped slightly from one year to the next. Fewer adults hold a college degree than across the country, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. The North Umpqua River and Cooper Creek Reservoir are both a short drive away, and both are good places to spend a quiet afternoon by the water. For a longer outing, Wildlife Safari, a zoo, is a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 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 49° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 86° and lows near 54°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winchester weather station, 2 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.
Winchester home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Winchester$501,335
- 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.
- Winchester10
Zip codes with a Winchester address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Winchester — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.