Clipper Mills, California.
Typical home $246,594 (-0.4% in a year). Chico, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$481 (+59%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $932 -0%
- $247,526$246,594 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $18,594 -7%
- $265,188$246,594 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.
- Clipper Mills$1,294
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Clipper Mills, CA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clipper Mills, Butte County, California
Clipper Mills, in Butte County, had 160 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clipper Mills is a very small community in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Butte County, home to only a few people. Winters are cold, with days that stay cool and nights that fall to the freezing mark, and a lot of snow settles over the year. Summers are warm, and the year brings plenty of rain and melted snow as well. Home values here sit above the county's household income, so a house costs more than a typical local year's earnings.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Butte County, some of the largest workplaces are Enloe Medical Center, California State University-Chico and Chico Unified. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Feather Falls, a waterfall, and New Bullards Bar Reservoir are both a short drive away, and so are the South Fork Feather River and the Middle Fork Feather River. A longer drive brings you to Lake Oroville, a large reservoir, and to Empire Mine State Historic Park, a protected area with a long mining history. Rivers, lakes and open country make up most of what is close at hand.
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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 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 51°. About 82 inches of snow and 83 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Strawberry Valley weather station, 4 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; Clipper Mills 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 Clipper Mills’ 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.
Clipper Mills home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clipper Mills$246,594
- 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.
- Clipper Mills9
Zip codes with a Clipper Mills address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clipper Mills — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.