Malin, Oregon.
Typical home $287,876 (+1.7% in a year). Klamath Falls, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$859 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,756 +2%
- $283,120$287,876 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,923 +17%
- $245,953$287,876 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.
- Malin$1,511
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Malin, OR rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Malin, Klamath County, Oregon
Malin is a city of 731 people in Klamath County. Unemployment in Klamath County was 6.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Klamath County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Malin is a very small city in Klamath County, in the high country of southern Oregon. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while summers turn warm in July, and the year is fairly dry overall.
Work. Residents of Malin work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing many people. Very few work from home. Across Klamath County, the biggest workplaces include SKY Lakes Medical Center, Klamath County Schools and the Oregon Institute of Technology. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Tule Lake is a short drive away, and so are Tule Lake National Monument and Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, both protected areas worth an afternoon. Lava Beds National Monument, also a protected area, is a longer drive away, and makes a good day trip.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Klamath County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Klamath County had 23,884 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 41° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 47°. About 23 inches of snow and 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tulelake weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Klamath County
- SKY Lakes Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,281FTE
- Klamath County SDSchool district937FTE
- Oregon Institute of TechnologyUniversity or college623
- Klamath Falls City SchoolsSchool district436FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters416
- Klamath Community CollegeTwo-year college312
- Columbia Forest ProductsHardwood veneer or plywood manufacturing287
- New Horizons - Oregon South - Klamath FallsCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities273
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,088 people in all across the county; Malin has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Malin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Klamath County and the Klamath Falls, OR metro.
Malin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Malin$287,876
- 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.
- Malin6
Zip codes with a Malin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Malin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.