Esparto, California.
Typical home $465,816 (+3.7% in a year). Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,137 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,676 +4%
- $449,140$465,816 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,434 +6%
- $441,382$465,816 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.
- Esparto$2,445
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 64 years.
Typical home values in Esparto, CA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Esparto, Yolo County, California
Esparto, in Yolo County, had 3,572 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $102,986 a year and half less, against $91,752 across Yolo County. Unemployment in Yolo County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Esparto is a small community in Yolo County, and household incomes here run higher than across the county as a whole. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers turn properly hot in July. Rain falls mostly outside the warm months, adding up to a modest amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Yolo County, the largest workplaces include the University of California-Davis and the Cache Creek Casino Resort. Commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Berryessa is a reservoir and Putah Creek is a river, both a longer drive away. For something indoors, the Crocker Art Museum is a museum, also a longer drive away. Putah Creek State Wildlife Area, a protected area, is another longer trip for those who like to watch birds and wildlife.
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- 1,050households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yolo County had 109,634 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 60°. About 24 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winters weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yolo County
- University of California-DavisUniversity or college14,568
- Cache Creek Casino ResortHotels, resort, with casinos2,087
- SacramentoMail and parcel delivery1,672
- TargetDiscount department stores1,376
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,351
- Davis Joint UnifiedSchool district867FTE
- Woodland Joint UnifiedSchool district867FTE
- Washington UnifiedSchool district774FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 245 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57,458 people in all across the county; Esparto has one of its own. Colleges come 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 floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Esparto’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 Yolo County and the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
Esparto home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Esparto$465,816
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Esparto8
Zip codes with a Esparto address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Esparto — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.