Dorris, California.
Typical home $136,015 (-7.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$312 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,455 -7%
- $146,469$136,015 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,380 -7%
- $146,395$136,015 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.
- Dorris$714
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Dorris, CA fell 7.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dorris, Siskiyou County, California
Dorris is a city of 860 people in Siskiyou County. Unemployment in Siskiyou County was 7.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Siskiyou 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dorris is a very small city in the far north of California, close to the Oregon line, and most of the people who live there know one another. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow through the season, and summers are warm. Incomes are on the low side, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical, while homes are inexpensive to buy.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Siskiyou County, the largest workplaces include the California Department of Transportation, Fairchild Medical Center and CAL Fire. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Some residents work from home.
Things to do. Indian Tom Lake lies in or beside town, and Lower Klamath Lake is a short drive away. Also close by is Butte Valley National Grassland, a protected area of open country. A longer drive leads to Lava Beds National Monument, another protected area.
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- 357households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What people in Siskiyou County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Siskiyou County had 13,862 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 48°. About 52 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keno weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Siskiyou County
- Fairchild Medical CenterCritical access hospital341FTE
- CAL FireCal fire265
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters224
- Plant Sciences Genetics, MacdoelAgriculture production or harvesting crews210
- College of the SiskiyousTwo-year college208
- Pfeiffer VacuumFlanges and flange unions, pipe, metal, manufacturing201
- Mercy Medical Center Mt. ShastaCritical access hospital194FTE
- Yreka Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district142FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,934 people in all across the county; Dorris 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
- DroughtVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- 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 Dorris’ 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 Siskiyou County.
Dorris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dorris$136,015
- 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.
- Dorris12
Zip codes with a Dorris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dorris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.