Copperopolis, California.
Typical home $525,952 (-0.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,327 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,215 -0%
- $528,167$525,952 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,853 +1%
- $521,099$525,952 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.
- Copperopolis$2,761
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Copperopolis, CA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Copperopolis, Calaveras County, California
Copperopolis, in Calaveras County, had 3,400 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $108,457 a year and half less, against $78,647 across Calaveras County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Calaveras County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Copperopolis is a small community in Calaveras County where almost everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural foothill area. Winters are cool and mild, summers get properly hot, and snow is rare.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in government. Across Calaveras County, some of the biggest workplaces are CAL Fire, Calaveras Unified and Mark Twain Medical Center. The usual trip to work is a long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Water is close by: New Melones Lake and Lake Tulloch are both reservoirs a short drive away, and Black Creek is a river nearby too. For a longer outing, Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a protected area, and Moaning Cavern is a tourist attraction, both a longer drive away.
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- 1,706households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calaveras County had 10,140 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 65°. About 30 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Melones Dam Headquarters weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calaveras County
- CAL FireCal fire664
- ACRT PacificForestry services333
- Calaveras UnifiedSchool district257FTE
- Mark Twain Medical CenterCritical access hospital219FTE
- Pride On PointDriving services214
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services113
- Calaveras County Office of Education SchoolsSchool district95FTE
- Bret Harte Union High SchoolsSchool district91FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,121 people in all across the county; Copperopolis has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Copperopolis’ 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 Calaveras County.
Copperopolis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Copperopolis$525,952
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Copperopolis 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.
- Copperopolis23.98%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Copperopolis115
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Copperopolis15
Zip codes with a Copperopolis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Copperopolis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.