Foresthill, California.
Typical home $494,022 (+1.6% in a year). Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,122 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,779 +2%
- $486,242$494,022 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $272 +0%
- $493,750$494,022 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.
- Foresthill$2,593
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Foresthill, CA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Foresthill, Placer County, California
Foresthill, in Placer County, had 1,692 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Placer County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Placer County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Foresthill is a small community in Placer County, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where daily life tends to be quiet and close-knit. Typical home values here sit well above what many older homeowners elsewhere would expect for a town this size, and the winters are cool, with highs near the middle of the range for a mountain community and lows that dip toward freezing. Summers turn properly hot in July, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. The largest workplaces in Foresthill include the Forest Service, Foresthill Union Elementary Schools and the Placer County Water Agency. The typical commute is long, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Water and trails are close by. The Rubicon River and Sugar Pine Reservoir are both a short drive away, good for time by the water. Farther afield, Auburn State Recreation Area is a protected area a longer drive away, and Empire Mine State Historic Park, also a longer drive away, is a place to learn about the region's mining past.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Placer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Placer County had 188,212 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 50° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 63°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Georgetown Rs weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Foresthill
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture64
- Foresthill Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district47FTE
- Placer County Water AgencyHydroelectric power generation37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 37 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Foresthill’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 Placer County and the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
Foresthill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Foresthill$494,022
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Foresthill listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Foresthill29.07%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Foresthill46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Foresthill8
Zip codes with a Foresthill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Foresthill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.