Trail, Oregon.
Typical home $477,719 (+1.2% in a year). Medford, OR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,176 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,881 +1%
- $471,839$477,719 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $247 +0%
- $477,472$477,719 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.
- Trail$2,507
- Oregon$2,586
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Trail, OR rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Trail, Jackson County, Oregon
Trail, in Jackson County, had 768 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Jackson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trail is a very small community in Jackson County, Oregon, where Elk Creek runs in or beside town. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes would easily support, and far fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is usual elsewhere. Winters are cold and mostly rain rather than snow, and summers turn hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in professional and business services. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are Medford Schools, Providence Medford Medical Center and the Veterans Health Administration. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Elk Creek runs in or beside town, and Big Butte Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Lost Creek Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive away, as is Casey State Recreation Site, a protected area. Mill Creek Falls, a waterfall, is a longer drive for anyone wanting to go farther.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
What people in Jackson County 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 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 51°. About 1 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lost Creek Dam weather station, 7 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; Trail has none 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trail’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Trail home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trail$477,719
- 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.
- Trail10
Zip codes with a Trail address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trail — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.