Garberville, California.
Typical home $301,760 (-9.2% in a year). Eureka-Arcata, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $442 (-22%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $30,421 -9%
- $332,181$301,760 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $269,327 -47%
- $571,087$301,760 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.
- Garberville$1,584
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Garberville, CA fell 9.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Garberville, Humboldt County, California
Garberville, in Humboldt County, had 818 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Humboldt County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Humboldt 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Garberville is a very small community in Humboldt County, surrounded by redwood country along the Eel River. Winters are cool and wet, with highs and lows staying above freezing and little or no snow, while summers turn warm and the year brings a lot of rain overall. Homes here cost a good deal less than many places in California, and household incomes in the county run on the modest side.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Almost nobody works from home. Across Humboldt County, some of the largest workplaces are the California Department of Transportation, which maintains the region's highways and bridges, and California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, with the number of jobs growing only slightly.
Things to do. Benbow Lake State Recreation Area and John B. Dewitt Redwoods State Natural Reserve are in or beside town, so a walk among the big trees is close at hand. Richardson Grove State Park, another protected redwood area, is only a short drive away. For a longer outing, Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a longer drive away and offers more of the same forest.
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- 1%work from home
What people in Humboldt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Humboldt County had 52,251 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 49° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 86° and lows near 54°. About 65 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richardson Gr Sp weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Humboldt County
- California State Polytechnic University-HumboldtUniversity or college1,189
- St. Joseph Hospital - EurekaGeneral hospital818FTE
- College of the RedwoodsTwo-year college472
- Eureka City SchoolsSchool district461FTE
- CAL FireCal fire420
- MAD River Community HospitalGeneral hospital415FTE
- Humboldt Sawmill CoBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts313
- Danco BuildersMultifamily building construction general contractors301
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,058 people in all across the county; Garberville 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
- LandslidesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Garberville’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 Humboldt County and the Eureka-Arcata, CA metro.
Garberville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Garberville$301,760
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Garberville 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.
- Garberville16.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Garberville57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Garberville8
Zip codes with a Garberville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Garberville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.