Crowley Lake, California.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,997 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Living in Crowley Lake, Mono County, California
Crowley Lake, in Mono County, had 980 people in the 2020 census. 100% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 0% are rented. Unemployment in Mono County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mono County work in restaurants and hotels, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crowley Lake is a small community on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, named for the reservoir in or beside town. Every home is lived in by its owner, so there are no renters, and residents are a little younger on average than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with February the coldest month, highs staying above freezing but nights well below it. Summers are mild and pleasant, with July the warmest month, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in the building trades. Across Mono County, the largest workplaces include Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, the Southern Mono Health Care District and Mammoth Unified school district. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly. The typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Crowley Lake itself, a reservoir, is in or beside town. Convict Lake and Rock Creek are both a short drive away, one a lake and the other a river. Mammoth Mountain Ski Area is a longer drive away and draws people for winter skiing.
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- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Mono County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mono County had 8,196 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in February, with highs near 41° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 49°. About 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mammoth Lakes Rs weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mono County
- Mammoth Mountain SKI AreaAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations1,958
- Southern Mono Health Care DistrictCritical access hospital251FTE
- Mammoth UnifiedSchool district114FTE
- Aspen Skiing Company104
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores103
- Eastern Sierra UnifiedSchool district66FTE
- Alterra Mountain CompanySkiing facilities65
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,016 people in all across the county; Crowley Lake has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crowley Lake’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 Mono County.
Crowley Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Crowley Lake4
Zip codes with a Crowley Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crowley Lake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.