Crescent City, California.
Typical home $358,518 (-1.0% in a year), asking rent $1,937 . Crescent City, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$865 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,518 -1%
- $362,036$358,518 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,267 +7%
- $334,251$358,518 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.
- Crescent City$1,882
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 49 years.
Typical home values in Crescent City, CA fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crescent City, Del Norte County, California
Crescent City is a city of 6,673 people in Del Norte County. 32% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 68% are rented. Unemployment in Del Norte County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crescent City is a small coastal city and the county seat of Del Norte County, far up the northern California coast. Far fewer homes here are lived in by their owners than is typical, so renting is common, and rents run high compared with what many residents earn. Winters are cool rather than harsh, summers stay mild, and a good deal of rain falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, government, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Crescent City are Del Norte County Unified, Safeway and the National Park Service. A small share of people work from home, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Castle Rock National Wildlife Refuge is in or beside town. A short drive away are Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park and Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, both protected redwood groves. Redwood National Park is a longer drive away, as is the Smith River.
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- 1,693households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Del Norte County had 8,382 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 55° and lows near 41°; warmest in September, with highs near 64° and lows near 50°. About 58 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crescent City Mcnamara Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crescent City
- Del Norte County UnifiedSchool district552FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores90
- Del Norte County Office of Education SchoolsSchool district51FTE
- Sartori Crescent City CreameryDairy product stores51
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior44
- Crescent CityMail and parcel delivery32
- Uncharted Shores Academy DistrictSchool district32FTE
- BalchGrocery stores24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 197 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- TsunamisVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crescent City’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 Del Norte County and the Crescent City, CA metro.
Crescent City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crescent City$358,518
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Crescent City 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.
- Crescent City26.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Crescent City129
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Crescent City20
Zip codes with a Crescent City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crescent City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.