Fort Bragg, California.
Typical home $544,716 (+0.5% in a year). Ukiah, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$935 (+49%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,676 +0%
- $542,040$544,716 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $91,629 -14%
- $636,345$544,716 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.
- Fort Bragg$2,859
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Fort Bragg, CA rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California
Fort Bragg is a city of 6,983 people in Mendocino County. Half its households earn more than $56,481 a year and half less, against $68,092 across Mendocino County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in Mendocino County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Bragg is a small coastal city whose residents are older than in much of the country, and more of them rent their homes than own them. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect of a town this size. Winters are mild and cool rather than cold, summers stay cool, and snow is rare, though rain falls through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in town are Fort Bragg Unified, Adventist Health Mendocino Coast and Safeway. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Mendocino County has eased a little over the past year, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Glass Beach, a beach, and the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens both lie in or beside town. A short drive away, MacKerricher State Park is a protected coastal area that makes a good outing for a longer walk. Mendocino Headlands State Park, also a short drive away, offers more shoreline to explore.
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- 3,135households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mendocino County had 31,998 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 52° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 65° and lows near 50°. About 43 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Bragg North weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fort Bragg
- Fort Bragg UnifiedSchool district245FTE
- Adventist Health Mendocino CoastCritical access hospital230FTE
- Cypress HoldingsGrocery stores121
- Norcal Last MileDelivery service121
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores115
- Parents and Friends62
- Fort BraggMail and parcel delivery25
- Parents and Friends20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 723 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Fort BraggRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fort Bragg’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 Mendocino County and the Ukiah, CA metro.
Fort Bragg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Bragg$544,716
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Fort Bragg listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Fort Bragg28.65%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fort Bragg64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fort Bragg13
Zip codes with a Fort Bragg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Bragg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.