Chilcoot, California.
Typical home $279,911 (-0.5% in a year). Susanville, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$546 (+59%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,417 -1%
- $281,328$279,911 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $29,409 -10%
- $309,320$279,911 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.
- Chilcoot$1,469
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Chilcoot, CA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chilcoot, Plumas County, California
Chilcoot, in Plumas County, had 446 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Plumas County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Plumas 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chilcoot is a very small community in Plumas County, with a population among the smallest of the places people look up. Residents are younger on average than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and a fair amount of snow falls each year, while summers turn warm in July. Precipitation is on the light side.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in government. Across Plumas County, some of the largest workplaces are the California Department of Transportation facilities, Sierra Pacific Industries' Quincy Division and the Plumas Unified school district. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Frenchman Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the nearest place for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Tahoe National Forest, a large protected area for walking and camping, and to the National Automobile Museum, a museum for anyone who likes classic cars. Lake Davis, another reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Plumas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plumas County had 6,610 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 51°. About 26 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Doyle Sse weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plumas County
- Sierra Pacific Industries, Quincy DivisionWood chips made in sawmills289
- Plumas UnifiedSchool district200FTE
- Feather River Community College DistrictUniversity or college190
- Eastern Plumas Health CareCritical access hospital144FTE
- Plumas District Hospital CAHCritical access hospital129FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture117
- Seneca District HospitalCritical access hospital93FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,074 people in all across the county; Chilcoot has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chilcoot’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 Plumas County and the Susanville, CA metro.
Chilcoot home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chilcoot$279,911
- 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 Chilcoot address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chilcoot — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Chilcoot
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96105 | Chilcoot | 799 | — | $337,192 |
| 96129 | Beckwourth | 306 | — | $371,788 |