Douglas City, California.
Typical home $284,638 (-2.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$446 (+43%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,483 -2%
- $291,121$284,638 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $78,197 -22%
- $362,835$284,638 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.
- Douglas City$1,494
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Douglas City, CA fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Douglas City, Trinity County, California
Douglas City, in Trinity County, had 868 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Trinity County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Trinity 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Douglas City is a very small community on the Trinity River in Trinity County, where nearly everyone lives close to open country. Winters are cold, with some snow, while summers turn hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and household incomes across the county run on the modest side.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in restaurants and hotels, in farming, forestry and mining, or in shops. Across Trinity County, some of the largest workplaces are the California Department of Transportation facilities, which look after roads and bridges, along with Trinity Hospital and Trinity River Lumber Company. Job numbers across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment is no lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Shasta–Trinity National Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park, a museum. Lewiston Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive away. Trinity Lake, another reservoir, is a longer drive for a day on the water.
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- 407households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Trinity County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Trinity County had 2,894 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 52°. About 9 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weaverville weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Trinity County
- Trinity HospitalCritical access hospital161FTE
- Trinity River Lumber CompanyDimension lumber, made from logs or bolts150
- Trinity Alps UnifiedSchool district96FTE
- North State Grocery Group445110 supermarkets and other grocery retailers71
- Camp BasinChildren's camps60
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture60
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture55
- Mountain Valley UnifiedSchool district52FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 312 people in all across the county; Douglas City 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Douglas 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 Trinity County.
Douglas City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Douglas City$284,638
- 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.
- Douglas City10
Zip codes with a Douglas City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Douglas City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.