Forbestown, California.
Typical home $264,193 (-0.8% in a year). Yuba City, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$483 (+53%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,187 -1%
- $266,381$264,193 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $28,317 -10%
- $292,511$264,193 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.
- Forbestown$1,387
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Forbestown, CA fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forbestown, Yuba County, California
Forbestown, in Yuba County, had 396 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Yuba County was 6.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yuba 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Forbestown is a very small community in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Yuba County, where winters are cold and snowy and summers turn warm. Homes here are valued below what many Californians would expect, and the county's household incomes sit around the middle of the state's range rather than at either end.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in government. Across Yuba County, some of the largest workplaces are the California Department of Transportation facilities, Adventist Health and Rideout, and the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The South Fork Feather River runs in or beside town, and Feather Falls, a waterfall, and New Bullards Bar Reservoir are each a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Oroville is a reservoir a longer drive away, and it is also the setting for a state recreation area.
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What people in Yuba County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yuba County had 20,975 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 50° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 51°. About 82 inches of snow and 83 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Strawberry Valley weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yuba County
- Adventist Health and RideoutGeneral hospital1,278FTE
- Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Sacramento at Fire MountainCasino hotels1,162
- Marysville Joint UnifiedSchool district1,128FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters451
- Frank M. BoothHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors402
- Yuba County Packard BuildingGeneral services departments, government297
- Yuba County Office of Education SchoolsSchool district226FTE
- Yuba County Government CenterGeneral services departments, government225
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,378 people in all across the county; Forbestown has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forbestown’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 Yuba County and the Yuba City, CA metro.
Forbestown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forbestown$264,193
- 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.
Zip codes with a Forbestown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forbestown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.