Fulton, California.
Typical home $1,015,795 (+5.2% in a year). Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,543 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $50,571 +5%
- $965,224$1,015,795 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,448 +11%
- $913,347$1,015,795 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.
- Fulton$5,332
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Fulton, CA rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fulton, Sonoma County, California
Fulton, in Sonoma County, had 551 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sonoma County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sonoma 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fulton is a very small community in Sonoma County, home to far fewer people than most towns. Poverty is uncommon here, and homes are valued well above what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cool and mild, with December the coldest month, while summers are warm, with August the warmest. Rain falls through the year in a fair amount, and snow is not a feature of the weather.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Across Sonoma County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. Among the largest workplaces across Sonoma County are Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa Junior College and Keysight Technologies.
Things to do. Right in or beside town are the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, a theatre, and the Pacific Coast Air Museum. A short drive away are the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center and the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, a botanical garden. For a day among trees, Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve is a longer drive away.
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- 4%below the poverty line
What people in Sonoma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sonoma County had 206,393 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 58° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 52°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Santa Rosa Sonoma County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sonoma County
- Solairus AviationPassenger air transportation, nonscheduled1,800
- Kaiser PermanenteGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,755
- Keysight TechnologiesDigital test equipment manufacturing1,517
- Santa Rosa Junior CollegeTwo-year college1,491
- Santa Rosa Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,444FTE
- Santa Rosa High SchoolsSchool district1,119FTE
- Sonoma State UniversityUniversity or college1,058
- KFH - Santa RosaGeneral hospital884FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 414 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,136 people in all across the county; Fulton has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Droughtrelatively high in parts of FultonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fulton’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 Sonoma County and the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
Fulton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fulton$1,015,795
- 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 Fulton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fulton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.