Cazadero, California.
Typical home $555,056 (+0.3% in a year). Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,026 (+54%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,925 +0%
- $553,132$555,056 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $51,522 -8%
- $606,578$555,056 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.
- Cazadero$2,913
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Cazadero, CA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cazadero, Sonoma County, California
Cazadero, in Sonoma County, had 298 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sonoma County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sonoma County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cazadero is a very small community, home to fewer people than most towns on the map. Homes here are valued well above what is typical for the country, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is small. Winters are cool and wet and summers stay mild, with the year's coldest weather in January and its warmest in September, and a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Across Sonoma County, some of the largest workplaces are Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa Junior College and Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county is slightly lower than a year ago, though the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve, a protected area of redwood forest, is a short drive away, as is Fort Ross, a historic fort on the coast. Goat Rock Beach is also a short drive away, and the Russian River runs close by for time on the water. Sonoma Coast State Park, a longer drive away, offers more of the shoreline.
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- 4%below the poverty line
What people in Sonoma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sonoma County had 206,393 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 42°; warmest in September, with highs near 67° and lows near 48°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Ross weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sonoma County
- Solairus AviationPassenger air transportation, nonscheduled1,800
- Kaiser PermanenteGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,755
- Keysight TechnologiesDigital test equipment manufacturing1,517
- Santa Rosa Junior CollegeTwo-year college1,491
- Santa Rosa Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,444FTE
- Santa Rosa High SchoolsSchool district1,119FTE
- Sonoma State UniversityUniversity or college1,058
- KFH - Santa RosaGeneral hospital884FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 414 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,136 people in all across the county; Cazadero has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LandslidesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cazadero’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 Sonoma County and the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
Cazadero home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cazadero$555,056
- 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.
- Cazadero17
Zip codes with a Cazadero address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cazadero — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.