Glenn, California.
Typical home $692,194 (+6.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,600 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $44,459 +7%
- $647,735$692,194 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,862 +1%
- $683,333$692,194 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.
- Glenn$3,633
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Glenn, CA rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glenn, Glenn County, California
The Census does not count Glenn on its own, so the figures here are Glenn County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,139 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 61% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Glenn County was 7.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Glenn County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glenn is a town in Glenn County, in the northern part of California's Sacramento Valley, a region of flat farmland. Most homes in the county are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, summers are very hot, and the area gets a good deal of rain and melted snow over a year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, or in manufacturing. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, though the number of jobs dipped slightly in the latest year. Few people work from home, so most commute to a workplace outside the house.
Things to do. A few spots lie a short drive away, including Stony Creek, a river, and the Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for wildlife. Bidwell Park, a park, and the Museum of Northern California Art, a museum, are a longer drive away.
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- 9,810households
- 36.2median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Glenn County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Glenn County had 9,713 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 61°. About 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chico Univ Farm weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glenn County
- Northern Valley Indian HealthMedical doctors', mental health, offices471
- Johns ManvilleFiberglass insulation products manufacturing365
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services276
- Orland Joint UnifiedSchool district246FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters232
- Willows UnifiedSchool district165FTE
- Capay FarmsFarm management services163
- Masters Gallery Foods - WestCreamery products merchant wholesalers160
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,699 people in all. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Glenn County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Glenn County.
Glenn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glenn$692,194
- 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 Glenn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glenn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.