Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Myrtle Creek grades D− overall, 131st of 142 graded towns in Oregon, mostly because of incomes and schools. The median household income is $56K, and 16% of residents live below the poverty line. Its public schools trail 84% of Oregon towns on state tests and graduation. One bright spot: it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 94% of U.S. towns. On hazard risk, just 5 of Oregon’s 228 towns do worse. Rice Brothers and Adams Building and Bernard Pitzer Smith House is on the National Register of Historic Places. Only 4 of the 115 Oregon towns we compare have a lower value of a typical home than Myrtle Creek.
Where Myrtle Creek beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Rice Brothers and Adams BuildingWhere Myrtle Creek’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Oregon), ordered by how far Myrtle Creek is from typical.
Its grades run from A for walkability (better than 94% of comparable towns) to D− for hazard risk (better than 2%), so the D− overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 119 in 1880, 3,481 in 2020. The archive holds 12 old photos and papers going back to 1863 and 2 maps from 1955 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Myrtle Creek, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Oct 2, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Myrtle Creek.
Myrtle Creek fares better on crime within Oregon than nationally and is healthier than towns with similar incomes, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Oregon (mostly inland flooding).
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 100% of Oregon towns; that rating is what its D− for hazard risk is built on.
Federal aid has come to Myrtle Creek households in 2 declared disasters; the latest was in 2025. Expected losses in Myrtle Creek break down as 55% from inland flooding and 25% from wildfires. Flood insurance has paid out on 27 claims here since 1981.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. Public schools: South Umpqua SD 19.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coffenberry Middle SchoolLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 267 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OR on state tests and graduation
The median property tax bill is $1,773, against $3,876 across Oregon, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Myrtle Creek’s rent at the middle of the market is $1,013 a month. 59% of Myrtle Creek households own their home, below both Oregon’s towns (65%) and U.S. towns (73%).
| Myrtle Creek | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 59% | 65% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,013 a month | $1,415 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Commuting out is the norm locally: 7% of working residents work locally. Myrtle Creek’s typical journey to work stands at 20 minutes, below both the Oregon town median (23 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Jobs here fell by 49 from 2013 to 2023, to 537. The top destinations are Roseburg (23%), Winston (5%) and Tri-City (5%).
| Myrtle Creek | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $56,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 7.3% | 10% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Against the 7,708 U.S. towns with household incomes like Myrtle Creek’s, it is less healthy than 54%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
In Myrtle Creek, 28% of adults have been diagnosed with depression. 14% of adults locally have diabetes; 39% have high blood pressure.
| Myrtle Creek | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 15% | 14% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 11% | 12% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 33% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 27% | 23% |
| What stands out | Myrtle Creek | OR |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 9.9% | 6.8% |
| More adults who have had a stroke | 4.5% | 3.3% |
| More adults with heart disease | 8.8% | 6.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 30.5 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports more crime than 56% of Oregon’s graded towns.
Its property offense rate is 16 per 1,000 residents. Myrtle Creek’s violent offense rate stands at 2.6 per 1,000 residents.
| Myrtle Creek | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 16 per 1,000 residents | 15.2 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.6 per 1,000 residents | 2.1 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 36° and about 2 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The biggest park or preserve is Millsite Park, at 21 acres. Trails total 0.6 miles in 4 parks and preserves. Myrtle Creek’s trail density comes in at 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Myrtle Creek | Oregon towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.8 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.4% | 4.4% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Millsite Park | 0.5 mi | 21 |
| 2. Stinebaugh Park | — | 5 |
| 3. Evergreen Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of Myrtle Creek; the nearest are
About 2 of every 100 Myrtle Creek residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Oregon.
City in Oregon, United States
Myrtle Creek is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 3,481 at the 2020 census.
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One town shares a border with Myrtle Creek.
| Town | OR rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myrtle Creek | #131 | D− | C | C | C− | C |
| Tri-City | #142 | D− | C+ | — | C− | D |
Tri-City reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Myrtle Creek with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Myrtle Creek grades D− overall, better than 3% of U.S. towns and #131 of 142 in Oregon. It grades C for health, C for safety and C− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D−.
That is 4.7 years of the area's median household income ($61,310 across the Roseburg, OR area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.