Etna, California.
Typical home $281,488 (-1.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$686 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,993 -1%
- $284,481$281,488 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,108 +6%
- $266,380$281,488 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.
- Etna$1,477
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 63 years.
Typical home values in Etna, CA fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Etna, Siskiyou County, California
Etna is a city of 678 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Etna is a very small city, with fewer residents than most towns of its kind, set in the mountain country of Siskiyou County. Winters are cold and summers turn hot, with only a little snow in a typical year and a moderate amount of rain and melted snow overall. Incomes run below the county's, and a good share of households live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, government, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Siskiyou County, some of the largest workplaces are Fairchild Medical Center, a critical access hospital, along with CAL Fire and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is slightly higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than the year before, so the work picture is a tight one. A small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The surrounding country is mostly public land and water, and each of these is a longer drive away. Klamath National Forest is the best known, a large protected area for hiking and camping. The Scott River is a river for fishing and time by the water, and Marble Mountain Wilderness is a protected area of backcountry for those who like to walk far from roads.
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- 18%below the poverty line
- 4%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 46° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 51°. About 4 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Callahan 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; Etna 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Etna’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 Siskiyou County.
Etna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Etna$281,488
- 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.
- Etna14
Zip codes with a Etna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Etna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Etna
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96027 | Etna | 1,908 | — | $279,815 |
| 96037 | Greenview | 168 | — | $298,322 |