Range Insights
Jackson County, Oregon
847 listings are available. Affordability tells a different story.
Jackson County's rental market has hundreds of available homes: 847 active listings, including 90 RV spaces. But once household income is considered, the number of realistic options shrinks dramatically.
Dots sit at random spots inside each listing’s ZIP code, not at addresses · Boundaries: US Census
01 · Current market
What’s on the market today
Live tracking began Sept 26, 2026; earlier figures are rebuilt from listing history. The median asking rent steps from $1,600 to $1,725 (+8%) in the single day where the two meet, while like-for-like medians barely moved over the month (1-bedroom $1,350 → $1,335, 3-bedroom $2,195 → $2,200) and the mix shifted toward larger units (two-bedrooms fell from 38% to 31% of listings). An apparent monthly rent rise would mostly reflect that, so week-over-week changes start Oct 3 and 30-day changes Oct 26.
02 · Affordability
What does a two-bedroom rent mean to different households?
The median two-bedroom asking rent is $1,525, with the middle half of listings between $1,350 and $1,800. Compare it with what a household can afford while spending 30% of income on rent.
The median two-bedroom asking rent is about 2.2 times what an extremely low-income household can afford at 30% of income.
03 · Unit size
The gap exists across every apartment size
At 30% of area median income (extremely low income), the affordable rent for each unit size sits well below its median asking rent. Select a size to compare.
04 · Market access
753 priced rentals.
16 affordable at 50% AMI.
Visible inventory is not the same as accessible inventory.
This measure compares currently observed affordable rental inventory with the total population of renter households at or below that income threshold. It is an indicator of market accessibility, not a count of households competing for a particular unit. The 16 listings are observed current inventory across all unit sizes, not two-bedroom units, and not the county's total affordable housing stock.
How is this calculated?
Listings are a September 30, 2026 snapshot; the household estimates are from an earlier period (2018–2022), so treat the ratio as a scale, not a precise count.
05 · Existing renters
Today’s asking market is more expensive than the rents existing households report paying
ACS gross rent is a survey of households already housed; Range Lab asking rent is today’s advertised prices. Two differences pull in opposite directions: gross rent includes utilities that most asking rents leave out, which understates the gap, while the ACS figure averages 2020–2024 rents, which overstates it against today’s market. Treat the ~25% as directional, not exact.
06 · Cost burden
Cost burden rises sharply at lower incomes
47% of Jackson County renter households spend more than 30% of income on housing, and 23% spend more than half. Switch to renters below 50% AMI to see how sharply the share rises.
07 · Housing instability
Homelessness held steady, and far fewer people are unsheltered
The 2025 Point-in-Time count for the Medford, Ashland/Jackson County Continuum of Care (OR-502) recorded 1,161 people experiencing homelessness on one night in January, about the same as 2023 (1,143). What changed is where people were: the unsheltered share fell from 49% to 36%, the number sheltered rose from 587 to 740, and chronic homelessness fell from 243 to 102.
A PIT count is a one-night snapshot using HUD methodology, not a census of everyone who experiences homelessness during a year, and it cannot show what causes homelessness. Year-round shelter and transitional beds actually fell over the same period (667 to 629), so the rise in people sheltered came from seasonal, overflow or other capacity.
08 · Shelter capacity
Shelter capacity only covers part of the need
This is a capacity comparison, not a one-to-one measure of bed availability on the night of the count. 740 people were sheltered that night, more than the 629 year-round beds, because the inventory also has seasonal and overflow beds not counted here. DERIVED FROM RANGE INSIGHTS DATA
09 · Vouchers
A voucher puts about 20 times more of the market within reach
Both counts screen the same 753 priced listings, so the 20× compares like with like. It is a market-access indicator, not a voucher success rate. The housing authority’s payment standard can sit above or below FMR, and a listing within it is not automatically available: bedroom size, landlord participation, screening, location, utilities and timing all affect actual access. Vouchers are also scarce; most low-income renters do not have one.
10 · Subsidized housing
Today’s affordability problem also has a preservation question
End dates are estimated from each property's placed-in-service year: commitments run 30 years (15 before 1990), the federal minimum. Many Oregon properties carry longer state agreements, and reaching an end date does not mean units automatically convert to market rate. 15 units have no recorded placed-in-service year.
11 · Community services
Housing is only part of the community system
Counts describe active, public services currently captured by the Range Lab resource directory, not a complete census of every community organization or service in the county. The ring shows the twelve categories Range Insights treats as essential; hover or focus a category for its count.
12 · Who lives here
222,645 residents, and the services that reach them
Each bar is a population group’s share of the county. The resource directory’s count for the matching category sits alongside.
- Residents age 65+52,340 · 24%17Seniors listings
- People with a disability36,262 · 16%34Disability listings
- Veterans15,684 · 7%7Veterans listings
- Children under age 511,041 · 5%39Children listings
- Spanish speakers with limited English4,691 · 2%2Spanish-speaking listings
That is about one directory listing per 2,346 people, the thinnest coverage of any group here. Seniors are next: 17 listings for 52,340 residents 65 and over, about one per 3,079. Other organizations may serve these residents without being categorized this way, so a low count can mean a service gap, a directory gap, or both.
13 · Broader housing market context
14 · Jackson County in one minute
Shareable key finding
Of 753 priced listings in Jackson County, 16 are affordable to renter households at or below 50% AMI: roughly one observed listing per 718 such households.
Housing availability is only the beginning.
Range Insights combines live housing-market data from Range Lab with public affordability, demographic, homelessness, subsidized housing, and community-service data to provide a more complete picture of local conditions.