Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Roseburg has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 13,575 people come in to work
Employers in Roseburg report 18,086 jobs, against 9,591 working residents. The two grades for Roseburg are C− for jobs and income and A for walkability. Measured by household income, Roseburg is behind 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Roseburg: the figures worth knowing
Roseburg is where the jobs are
Roseburg has 18,086 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Roseburg are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 23 across Oregon. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Oregon worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Roseburg
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Roseburg is better than 18% of U.S. towns, #116 of 142 in Oregon. Unemployment holds Roseburg’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Roseburg could be anywhere from D to C.
Roseburg by day and by night
On a workday 5,080 residents head out to work and 4,511 work right here.
About 32,000 people are in Roseburg on a workday afternoon, 36% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
A commute of about 16 minutes in Roseburg
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roseburg workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,459 commuters (the 12% who work from home are left out). Across Oregon: 80% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Commuting in to Roseburg: where workers come from
Where Roseburg clocks in
5% of workers
3% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The kinds of work in Roseburg
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Roseburg, 2014 → 2024: 16,324 → 18,086. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Roseburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Roseburg
About 28% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Roseburg is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Roseburg is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns, #71 of 142 in Oregon. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.4% across Oregon.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,620 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 63% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 26% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 73% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 10.8% of Roseburg households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Roseburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Roseburg and other U.S. towns of 17,000 to 32,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 325 | Sherwood OR | 20,535 | $110K | 4.3% | 3.5% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 368 | West Linn OR | 26,567 | $147K | 5.5% | 4.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 594 | Happy Valley OR | 28,916 | $122K | 7.7% | 4.8% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,466 | Lake Wales FL | 18,650 | $56K | 22.4% | 5.9% | 13% | C− |
| 1,467 | Plattsburgh NY | 19,744 | $58K | 22.7% | 5.9% | 37% | C− |
| 1,468 | Roseburg OR | 23,693 | $54K | 22.4% | 4.7% | 47% | C− |
| 1,469 | Anderson SC | 31,323 | $47K | 21.0% | 6.8% | 21% | C− |
| 1,470 | Mercedes TX | 17,915 | $47K | 28.6% | 6.8% | 12% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,577 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 35% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Roseburg, the top three, the last and three more from Oregon.
Around Roseburg: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Roseburg workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roseburg | – | C− | A | 16 min | $53,918 |
| Roseburg North | under 2% | C+ | B+ | 16 min | $65,160 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Roseburg’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Roseburg: questions
What is the median household income in Roseburg?
$53,918 (±$6,645) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Roseburg?
22.4%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Roseburg?
16 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Roseburg work?
47% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eugene (5%, 59 mi), Medford (3%, 66 mi), Green (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Roseburg walkable?
Roseburg is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 11.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Roseburg without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 26% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Roseburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Roseburg
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.