Cassel, California.
Typical home $287,072 (+1.9% in a year). Redding, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$671 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,426 +2%
- $281,645$287,072 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,029 +1%
- $284,042$287,072 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.
- Cassel$1,507
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cassel, CA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cassel, Shasta County, California
Cassel, in Shasta County, had 207 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cassel is a very small community in Shasta County, home to far fewer people than most towns, with the Rising River running in or beside town. Homes here are worth less than many places in California, and winters are cold, with snow most years, though summers turn hot and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in professional and business services. A large share of people work from home, far more than is usual in most towns. Across Shasta County, the largest workplaces include Mercy Medical Center Redding and Shasta College, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Rising River runs in or beside town, and Lake Britton, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Also a short drive off is Burney Falls, a waterfall within McArthur–Burney Falls Memorial State Park, a protected area. For a longer outing, Manzanita Lake is a longer drive away.
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- 50%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 46° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 47°. About 11 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hat Creek weather station, under 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; Cassel 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cassel’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.
Cassel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cassel$287,072
- 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.
Zip codes with a Cassel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cassel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.