Fall River Mills, California.
Typical home $291,935 (+2.0% in a year). Redding, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$697 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,609 +2%
- $286,326$291,935 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,150 +3%
- $284,785$291,935 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.
- Fall River Mills$1,532
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Fall River Mills, CA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fall River Mills, Shasta County, California
Fall River Mills, in Shasta County, had 616 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Shasta County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shasta 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fall River Mills is a very small rural community in Shasta County, with a population that makes it a place where people mostly know one another. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, well below what is typical across the county. Homes are priced at a level that would be modest in much of California.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Shasta County, some of the largest workplaces are Mercy Medical Center Redding and Shasta College. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Fall River runs in or beside town, and Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to McArthur–Burney Falls Memorial State Park and Burney Falls, a waterfall. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers turn quite hot, so the seasons shape how people get outdoors.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Shasta County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shasta County had 71,664 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 47°. About 11 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hat Creek weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shasta County
- Mercy Medical Center ReddingGeneral hospital1,508FTE
- Shasta CollegeUniversity or college662
- Shasta Community Health CenterCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient536
- CAL FireCal fire503
- Shasta Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital492FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters465
- Shasta Union High SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- Redding Elementary SchoolsSchool district411FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 132 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,977 people in all across the county; Fall River Mills has two 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fall River Mills’ 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 Shasta County and the Redding, CA metro.
Fall River Mills home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fall River Mills$291,935
- 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.
- Fall River Mills17
Zip codes with a Fall River Mills address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fall River Mills — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.