Gerber, California.
Typical home $259,677 (+5.3% in a year). Red Bluff, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$553 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,164 +5%
- $246,513$259,677 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $18,889 -7%
- $278,566$259,677 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.
- Gerber$1,363
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Gerber, CA rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gerber, Tehama County, California
Gerber, in Tehama County, had 1,044 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Tehama County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tehama 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gerber is a small community in Tehama County, in the northern Sacramento Valley, and it is home to a small number of people. Homes here are priced below what is typical across much of California, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and the summers are hot, with highs in July well into the upper range, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents of Gerber work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and government. Across Tehama County, some of the biggest employers are Walmart, the County of Tehama and Sierra Pacific Windows. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Dye Creek and Mill Creek are rivers in or beside town, handy for a walk along the water. A short drive away is the State Theatre, and a longer drive brings you to William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park, a protected area that tells part of the region's history.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
What people in Tehama County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tehama County had 19,664 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 56° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 66°. About 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Red Bluff Municipal Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tehama County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage862
- County of TehamaBoards of supervisors, county and local713
- Sierra Pacific WindowsFrames, door and window, wood, manufacturing616
- Rolling Hills Casino721120 casino hotels611
- CAL FireCal fire462
- St Elizabeth Community HosptialGeneral hospital415FTE
- Sierra Pacific IndustriesMoldings, clear and finger joint wood, manufacturing361
- Sierra Pacific IndMoldings, wood and covered wood, manufacturing326
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,523 people in all across the county; Gerber has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gerber’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 Tehama County and the Red Bluff, CA metro.
Gerber home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gerber$259,677
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gerber10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gerber address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gerber — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.