Census-designated place · Douglas County, Oregon

Tri-City, Oregon

Tri-City is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Oregon, part of the Roseburg, OR metro area. It has 4,234 residents. Tri-City, Oregon has a quality-of-life score of 11 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,893 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Oregon it ranks #223 of 227 cities and towns. It ranks best on preventable hospital stays (low), public EV charging ports (high) and effective property tax rate (low). It ranks worst on rent as share of income (high), bachelor's degree or higher (low) and depression (high).

11Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,893 of 15,651 cities and towns
Oregon: #223 of 227 in OR
Population: 4,234 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 582.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 4174650

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 70 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety16#13,064/15,637
Economy12#13,766/15,631
Housing12#13,227/14,977
Health7#14,574/15,609
Healthcare48#8,094/15,650
Environment31#10,727/15,453
Education7#14,485/15,649
Infrastructure53#7,373/15,650
Community24#11,881/15,651
Leisure & amenities52#7,583/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Tri-City, Oregon ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Douglas County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Preventable hospital stays · low1,444 /100k
97/100Oregon 1,868 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDouglas County value
Public EV charging ports · high14.7 /10k
90/100Oregon 10.1 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyDouglas County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.53%
85/100Oregon 0.81%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Mental health providers · high457 /100k
81/100Oregon 776 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDouglas County value
Hospital quality rating · high4.0
80/100Oregon 3.3United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDouglas County value
Comfortable days · high30.1%
79/100Oregon 27.0%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDouglas County value

Weaknesses

Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100Oregon 31.3%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Bachelor's degree or higher · low6.9%
3/100Oregon 36.8%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Depression · high30.9%
3/100Oregon 27.9%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Frequent mental distress · high22.6%
3/100Oregon 19.6%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Flu vaccinations · low27.0%
4/100Oregon 39.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDouglas County value
Suicide rate · high26.7 /100k
7/100Oregon 20.3 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataDouglas County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Child poverty rateWorsening
26.2% (2015-2019) → 69.6% (2020-2024)
+43 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
38.8% (2015-2019) → 74.2% (2020-2024)
+35 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
22.8% (2015-2019) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+28 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateWorsening
15.9% (2015-2019) → 27.5% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
83.5% (2015-2019) → 90.0% (2020-2024)
+6.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Unemployment rateImproving
15.0% (2015-2019) → 8.8% (2020-2024)
−6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Tri-City, Oregon improved on 0 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 11 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined3

Child poverty+43 points26.2% → 69.6%
Rent / income+28 points22.8% → 51.0%
Rent burden+35 points38.8% → 74.2%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Tri-City, Oregon between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.4 min2015-2019	22.4 min2020-2024	+3.0 min	Within the margin of error	20%
Bachelor's degree or higher	7.6%2015-2019	6.9%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	23%
Broadband subscriptions	84.5%2015-2019	81.3%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Child poverty rate	26.2%2015-2019	69.6%2020-2024	+43 points	Declined	1%
Effective property tax rate	0.74%2015-2019	0.53%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	60%
High school diploma or higher	83.5%2015-2019	90.0%2020-2024	+6.5 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Home price to income ratio	3.5×2015-2019	4.5×2020-2024	+1.0×	Within the margin of error	23%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4252015-2019	0.4442020-2024	+0.019	Within the margin of error	34%
Median household income	$43,5602015-2019	$55,0262020-2024	+26%	Within the margin of error	47%
Poverty rate	15.9%2015-2019	27.5%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Rent as share of income	22.8%2015-2019	51.0%2020-2024	+28 points	Declined	1%
Rent-burdened households	38.8%2015-2019	74.2%2020-2024	+35 points	Declined	2%
Unemployment rate	15.0%2015-2019	8.8%2020-2024	−6.2 points	Within the margin of error	97%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.2%2015-2019	8.3%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	76%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Tri-City, Oregon five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Tri-City, Oregon in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Tri-City, Oregon itself moved −21.7 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

4,234 residents (±623)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,766 households (±278)

Tri-City, Oregon
Oregon share

Under $25k20%†353
$25k–50k29%†508
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,766 households (±278)

Tri-City, Oregon
Oregon share

Own73%1,281
Rent27%†485

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,317 workers (±239)

Tri-City, Oregon
Oregon share

Drive alone63%833
Carpool22%†288
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Roseburg, OR

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Douglas County, the county holding most of Tri-City's residents.

Douglas County has 2,659 employer establishments, 236 for every 10,000 residents (0.95× the US rate of 248; 0.82× Oregon's), with 32,867 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,607. The Census Bureau also counts 6,502 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,659; 6,502 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 236; US 248 · Oregon 288
Paid employees: 32,867
Average annual pay: $53,607; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Douglas County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	211	18.8	1.21×About typical	1,249	$60,088	341
Restaurants and other eating places	207	18.4	1.00×About typical	2,997	$20,981	37
Ambulatory health care services	200	17.8	0.85×About typical	2,755	$81,103	308
Construction of buildings	128	11.4	1.51×More than typical	393	$44,621	305
Lessors of real estate	114	10.1	0.82×About typical	218	$41,459	618
Full-service restaurants	91	8.1	1.05×About typical	1,047	$24,291	16
Limited-service restaurants	84	7.5	0.93×About typical	1,540	$19,895	14
Religious organizations	82	7.3	1.31×More than typical	328	$18,622	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	82	7.3	1.08×About typical	366	$41,230	360
Truck transportation	78	6.9	1.37×More than typical	689	$57,740	153
Grocery and convenience stores	71	6.3	2.13×More than typical	942	$31,389	17
Automotive repair and maintenance	70	6.2	1.24×About typical	308	$41,545	122

Rank places for an industry Open Douglas County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 112,442 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated -$59.27 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Tri-City, Oregon: -$0.01 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: -$59.27; −110% vs FY2025
Per resident: -$0.01; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

UMPQUA RESEARCH COMPANY-$59.260.0%

Spending by fiscal year

55.6KFY2017
50.4KFY2018
13.8KFY2019
59.7KFY2020
9.7KFY2021
10.9KFY2022
265.8FY2023
7.7KFY2024
568.6

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Tri-City, Oregon, so they do not add up across cities.

Tri-City, Oregon's figures are part of those of Douglas County, OR ($67.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Tri-City is mostly in Douglas County.

See federal money in Douglas County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Tri-City, Oregon is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Douglas County31100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Roseburg, OR30

Other cities and towns in Douglas County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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