diff --git a/newsfragments/3041.bugfix.rst b/newsfragments/3041.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b21851e5b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/3041.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow sockets to bind any ``os.PathLike`` object.
diff --git a/src/trio/_socket.py b/src/trio/_socket.py
index 0a3bd1cba1..69a4d773d4 100644
--- a/src/trio/_socket.py
+++ b/src/trio/_socket.py
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ async def _resolve_address_nocp(
             )
     elif hasattr(_stdlib_socket, "AF_UNIX") and family == _stdlib_socket.AF_UNIX:
         # unwrap path-likes
-        assert isinstance(address, (str, bytes))
+        assert isinstance(address, (str, bytes, os.PathLike))
         return os.fspath(address)
     else:
         return address
diff --git a/src/trio/_tests/test_socket.py b/src/trio/_tests/test_socket.py
index b98b3246e9..9397733c72 100644
--- a/src/trio/_tests/test_socket.py
+++ b/src/trio/_tests/test_socket.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import socket as stdlib_socket
 import sys
 import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
 from socket import AddressFamily, SocketKind
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, List, Tuple, Union
 
@@ -1077,7 +1078,7 @@ async def test_unix_domain_socket() -> None:
     # Bind has a special branch to use a thread, since it has to do filesystem
     # traversal. Maybe connect should too? Not sure.
 
-    async def check_AF_UNIX(path: str | bytes) -> None:
+    async def check_AF_UNIX(path: str | bytes | os.PathLike[str]) -> None:
         with tsocket.socket(family=tsocket.AF_UNIX) as lsock:
             await lsock.bind(path)
             lsock.listen(10)
@@ -1091,8 +1092,11 @@ async def check_AF_UNIX(path: str | bytes) -> None:
     # Can't use tmpdir fixture, because we can exceed the maximum AF_UNIX path
     # length on macOS.
     with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
-        path = f"{tmpdir}/sock"
-        await check_AF_UNIX(path)
+        # Test passing various supported types as path
+        # Must use different filenames to prevent "address already in use"
+        await check_AF_UNIX(f"{tmpdir}/sock")
+        await check_AF_UNIX(Path(f"{tmpdir}/sock1"))
+        await check_AF_UNIX(os.fsencode(f"{tmpdir}/sock2"))
 
     try:
         cookie = os.urandom(20).hex().encode("ascii")