Bella Vista, California.
Typical home $414,450 (-1.9% in a year). Redding, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$810 (+59%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,920 -2%
- $422,371$414,450 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $34,451 -8%
- $448,901$414,450 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.
- Bella Vista$2,175
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bella Vista, CA fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bella Vista, Shasta County, California
Bella Vista, in Shasta County, had 3,641 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $90,566 a year and half less, against $72,636 across Shasta County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Shasta County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bella Vista is a small community in Shasta County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Winters are cool and mild, summers get properly hot, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in the building trades. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Northwest Transportation, a long-distance trucking company, Bella Vista Elementary Schools, and Franklin Logging. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Shasta Lake, a large reservoir, and the Pit River are both a short drive away, and both suit a day on the water or along the banks. Turtle Bay Exploration Park, a botanical garden, is also a short drive off, as is the Cascade Theatre. For a longer outing, Lake Shasta Caverns, a tourist attraction, takes a longer drive.
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- 1,491households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shasta County had 71,664 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 54° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 69°. About 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shasta Dam weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bella Vista
- Northwest TransportationMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload49
- Beneficial Insectary - Bella VistaCricket production42
- Bella Vista Elementary SchoolsSchool district37FTE
- North Cow Creek Elementary SchoolsSchool district22FTE
- Franklin LoggingLog harvesting20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 111 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Bella VistaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bella Vista’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 Shasta County and the Redding, CA metro.
Bella Vista home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bella Vista$414,450
- California$761,538
- 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.
- Bella Vista7
Zip codes with a Bella Vista address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bella Vista — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.