Fiddletown, California.
Typical home $464,679 (-0.9% in a year). Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,003 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,007 -1%
- $468,686$464,679 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $22,488 -5%
- $487,167$464,679 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.
- Fiddletown$2,439
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Fiddletown, CA fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fiddletown, Amador County, California
Fiddletown, in Amador County, had 279 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Amador County was 5.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Amador 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fiddletown is a very small community in Amador County, in California's Sierra foothills, home to only a small number of people. Homes here are valued above what is typical for many parts of the country, while household incomes across Amador County are somewhat modest by comparison. Winters are cool and summers run hot, with rain and some melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Across Amador County, jobs are found mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. The county's largest workplaces include Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort, Sutter Amador Hospital and Amador County Unified. Unemployment across the county has eased a little compared with a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park, an archaeological site, is a short drive away, as is Mount Zion State Forest, a protected area of woodland. For a longer outing, Eldorado National Forest is a larger protected area, and Folsom Lake is a reservoir that is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Amador County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Amador County had 12,197 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 63°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sutter Hill Cdf weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Amador County
- CDC Mule Creek State PrisonCorrectional institutions1,634
- Jackson Rancheria Casino ResortCasino hotels744
- Amador County UnifiedSchool district463FTE
- Harrah's Northern CaliforniaCasinos318
- Sutter Amador HospitalGeneral hospital307FTE
- MP Associates218
- WalmartDiscount department stores196
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter139
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,436 people in all across the county; Fiddletown has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively 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 Fiddletown’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 Amador County and the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
Fiddletown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fiddletown$464,679
- 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.
- Fiddletown14
Zip codes with a Fiddletown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fiddletown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.