Arbuckle, California.
Typical home $425,106 (+1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,101 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,284 +1%
- $419,821$425,106 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,112 +11%
- $382,994$425,106 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.
- Arbuckle$2,231
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Arbuckle, CA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Arbuckle, Colusa County, California
Arbuckle, in Colusa County, had 3,484 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $86,942 a year and half less, against $75,672 across Colusa County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Colusa County was 9.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Colusa County work in farming, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arbuckle is a small farming community in the Sacramento Valley, with a younger population than much of the country and few people living below the poverty line. Household incomes are higher than across Colusa County, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many places. Winters are cool and mostly dry, with little or no snow, and summers run hot.
Work. Most residents work in farming, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in government. Across Colusa County, some of the largest workplaces are the Arbuckle Rice Mill, The Morning Star Packing Company - WM, and Colusa Unified. Unemployment across the county is high, and has been about the same as a year ago, though the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for wildlife, is a short drive away. Farther out, a longer drive brings you to the Feather River, a river for walking its banks or fishing, and to the Sacramento Valley Museum. Most of these outings make for a day away from home rather than an afternoon.
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- 878households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Colusa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Colusa County had 9,472 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 54° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 60°. About 17 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Colusa Ssw weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Colusa County
- Arbuckle Rice Mill164
- The Morning Star Packing Company - WMPastes, fruit and vegetable, canning163
- Colusa UnifiedSchool district150FTE
- Williams UnifiedSchool district135FTE
- Pierce Joint UnifiedSchool district131FTE
- Acc-gwgRice milling112
- Sun Valley RiceRice milling108
- Colusa Medical CenterGeneral hospital106FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,571 people in all across the county; Arbuckle has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arbuckle’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Colusa County.
Arbuckle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arbuckle$425,106
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Arbuckle10
Zip codes with a Arbuckle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arbuckle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.