Burney, California.
Typical home $216,626 (+3.9% in a year). Redding, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$570 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,168 +4%
- $208,458$216,626 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,557 +14%
- $190,069$216,626 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.
- Burney$1,137
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Burney, CA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burney, Shasta County, California
Burney, in Shasta County, had 3,000 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $65,969 a year and half less, against $72,636 across Shasta County. 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 people in Shasta County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burney is a small community in Shasta County, in the forested uplands of northern California. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home value is modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month and freezing nights common, while summers turn hot by July, and precipitation falls as both rain and a good deal of snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Few work from home, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Across Shasta County, the largest workplaces include Mercy Medical Center Redding and Shasta College.
Things to do. The best-known nearby draw is Lassen Volcanic National Park, a national park a longer drive away. Closer in, Burney Falls is a waterfall a short drive from town, set within McArthur–Burney Falls Memorial State Park, and Lake Britton is a reservoir that is also a short drive away.
Report a mistake
- 1,119households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Shasta County 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 44° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 48°. About 44 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burney weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shasta County
- Mercy Medical Center ReddingGeneral hospital1,508FTE
- Shasta CollegeUniversity or college662
- Shasta Community Health CenterCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient536
- CAL FireCal fire503
- Shasta Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital492FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters465
- Shasta Union High SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- Redding Elementary SchoolsSchool district411FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 132 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,977 people in all across the county; Burney has one 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burney’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 Shasta County and the Redding, CA metro.
Burney home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burney$216,626
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Burney listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Burney16.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burney35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burney8
Zip codes with a Burney address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burney — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.