What is the population of Riddle city?

Riddle city has 1,161 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #218 of 426 in Oregon.

What is the median household income in Riddle city?

Median household income in Riddle city is $55,000 a year, 30% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Riddle city?

Median gross rent is $884 a month and the median home value is $215,100, so rent absorbs about 19.3% of median household income.

Is Riddle city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Riddle city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Riddle, OR population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Riddle, Oregon (Riddle, OR — Census place “Riddle city”) is 1,161 residents, ranking #218 of 426 places in Oregon. Median household income is $55,000, the median home is worth $215,100 and median gross rent runs $884 a month. Looking for the Riddle Oregon ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Riddle, OR: 97469.

Population: 1,161Riddle city residents
Median household income: $55,000Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $215,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $884Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 66.5%Owner-occupied households

Riddle ZIP codes (Oregon)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Riddle.

The Riddle OR ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

97469

What the numbers mean in Riddle city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Riddle city median would spend about 19.3% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 3.9× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 22.4% of residents and 66.5% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Riddle city, OR in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Riddle city is a small town in Oregon, with 1,161 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #218 of 426 ranked by population — larger than 48% of them. The median age here is 39.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Riddle city earn a median of $55,000 a year, 30% below the national figure of $78,538 and 26% below the $74,006 median for the 228 Oregon cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 22.4% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Riddle city is valued at $215,100, 29.1% below the national figure and 43% below the $377,700 peer median, while median gross rent runs $884 a month, 37.1% below the national figure, or roughly $10,608 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 66.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Riddle city?: Riddle city has 1,161 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #218 of 426 in Oregon.
What is the median household income in Riddle city?: Median household income in Riddle city is $55,000 a year, 30% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Riddle city?: Median gross rent is $884 a month and the median home value is $215,100, so rent absorbs about 19.3% of median household income.
Is Riddle city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Riddle city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 19.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Riddle city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.