Talent, Oregon.
Typical home $433,503 (+2.1% in a year), asking rent $1,921 . Medford, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,021 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,046 +2%
- $424,457$433,503 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,728 +6%
- $409,775$433,503 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.
- Talent$2,275
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 62 years.
Typical home values in Talent, OR rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Talent, Jackson County, Oregon
Talent is a city of 6,282 people in Jackson County. Half its households earn more than $62,543 a year and half less, against $73,999 across Jackson County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Jackson County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Talent is a small city in Jackson County, in southern Oregon. Fewer homes here are lived in by their owners than you would expect of a typical American town, so renting is a common way of life. Incomes run below the county's, and housing costs are high set against them. Winters are cool with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the yearly rainfall is modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Across Jackson County, the largest workplaces include Medford Schools, Providence Medford Medical Center and the Veterans Health Administration. Many people make a commute of moderate length, and a fair number work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Lithia Park is a garden with Ashland Creek running through it, and the Allen Elizabethan Theatre is nearby for an evening out. ScienceWorks Museum is also a short drive away and suits a family afternoon. For a longer outing, the Pacific Crest Trail is a longer drive away for walking.
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- 3,152households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 91,966 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 51°. About 20 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ashland weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Medford SD 549CSchool district1,538FTE
- Flowers.com,IncMail-order houses1,459
- City Of MedfordGeneral services departments, government863
- Providence Medford Medical CenterGeneral hospital842FTE
- Lithia MotorsNew car dealers840
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs770
- Rogue Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital755FTE
- Amy's KitchenSoups, frozen, manufacturing700
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 210 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,275 people in all across the county; Talent has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of TalentRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Talent’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Jackson County and the Medford, OR metro.
Talent home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Talent$433,503
- Oregon$492,753
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Talent listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Talent25.99%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Talent24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Talent5
Zip codes with a Talent address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Talent — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.