Berry Creek, California.
Typical home $237,097 (-3.2% in a year). Chico, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$104 (+9%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,952 -3%
- $245,049$237,097 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $116,917 -33%
- $354,014$237,097 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.
- Berry Creek$1,244
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Berry Creek, CA fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berry Creek, Butte County, California
Berry Creek, in Butte County, had 1,637 people in the 2020 census. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Butte County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Butte County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berry Creek is a small community in the Butte County foothills, home to an older population than most of the country, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Few adults here hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with December the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Across Butte County, the largest workplaces include Enloe Medical Center, California State University-Chico and Chico Unified. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Water and woods are the draw. Lake Oroville, a large reservoir, and Feather Falls, a waterfall, are both a short drive away, as is the Middle Fork Feather River. For a longer outing, Bidwell Park in Chico is a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
What people in Butte County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butte County had 78,544 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 58° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 63°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oroville weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butte County
- Enloe Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,095FTE
- California State University-ChicoUniversity or college1,858
- Chico UnifiedSchool district1,354FTE
- Oroville HospitalGeneral hospital1,327FTE
- Butte CollegeTwo-year college1,054
- CAL FireCal fire507
- Sierra Nevada Brewing CompanyBreweries459
- Lundberg Family FarmsRice farming, field and seed production384
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 131 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,366 people in all across the county; Berry Creek has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- WildfireVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berry Creek’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 Butte County and the Chico, CA metro.
Berry Creek home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berry Creek$237,097
- 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.
- Berry Creek11
Zip codes with a Berry Creek address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berry Creek — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.