Fort Jones, California.
Typical home $285,635 (+1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$721 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,794 +1%
- $282,841$285,635 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,647 +3%
- $277,987$285,635 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 Jones$1,499
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Fort Jones, CA rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, California
Fort Jones is a city of 695 people in Siskiyou County. Unemployment in Siskiyou County was 7.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Siskiyou 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fort Jones is a very small city in Siskiyou County, one of the smaller communities in the county. Homes here cost less than the typical home across the country, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places. Winters are cold, with daytime highs staying above freezing but nights dropping below it, and a modest amount of snow falls each year; summers turn hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, government, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Few people work from home. Across Siskiyou County, the largest workplaces include Fairchild Medical Center, CAL Fire and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has run a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs there slipped over the most recent full year.
Things to do. The Pacific Crest Trail, a long-distance hiking trail, is a longer drive away, as are the Shasta River and the Scott River, both good places to be beside moving water. The Marble Mountain Wilderness, a large protected area of rugged backcountry, is also a longer drive away. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year, so the trails and rivers have their seasons.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 6%work from home
What people in Siskiyou County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Siskiyou County had 13,862 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 45° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 55°. About 12 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yreka weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Siskiyou County
- Fairchild Medical CenterCritical access hospital341FTE
- CAL FireCal fire265
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters224
- Plant Sciences Genetics, MacdoelAgriculture production or harvesting crews210
- College of the SiskiyousTwo-year college208
- Pfeiffer VacuumFlanges and flange unions, pipe, metal, manufacturing201
- Mercy Medical Center Mt. ShastaCritical access hospital194FTE
- Yreka Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district142FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,934 people in all across the county; Fort Jones 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Fort Jones’ 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 Siskiyou County.
Fort Jones home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fort Jones$285,635
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Fort Jones 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 Jones26.36%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fort Jones21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Fort Jones address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fort Jones — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.