Doyle, California.
Typical home $161,503 (+3.1% in a year). Susanville, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$335 (+65%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,841 +3%
- $156,662$161,503 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $7,294 -4%
- $168,797$161,503 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.
- Doyle$848
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Doyle, CA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Doyle, Lassen County, California
Doyle, in Lassen County, had 536 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lassen County was 6.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lassen County work in government, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Doyle is a very small community in Lassen County, home to only a modest number of residents. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of California. Winters are cold, with daytime highs staying cool and nights dropping below freezing in December, and a fair amount of snow falls each year. Summers turn properly warm, with July the hottest month, and the year as a whole is fairly dry.
Work. Residents work mostly in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, and in shops. Across Lassen County, some of the largest workplaces are High Desert State Prison, the California Department of Transportation and Lassen Community College. Unemployment across the county has stayed about where it was a year ago, and there are somewhat fewer jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. Frenchman Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Pyramid Lake and Honey Lake are both lakes within a longer drive, and Plumas National Forest offers protected woodland for those willing to travel a bit more.
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What people in Lassen County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lassen County had 8,945 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 51°. About 26 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Doyle Sse weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lassen County
- CDCR, High Desert State PrisonCorrectional institutions1,305
- CAL FireCal fire389
- Lassen Community CollegeTwo-year college207
- WalmartDiscount department stores162
- Banner Lassen Medical CenterCritical access hospital152FTE
- Sierra Cascade NurseryStrawberry farming149
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice125
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,771 people in all across the county; Doyle has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Doyle’s 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 Lassen County and the Susanville, CA metro.
Doyle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Doyle$161,503
- 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.
- Doyle11
Zip codes with a Doyle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Doyle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.