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Gold Run, California.

Typical home $419,204 (-4.1% in a year). Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.

What it costs per month · Gold Run $2,200/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$757 (+53%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $17,800 -4%
$437,004$419,204 since Sep 2025
5 years
Down $56,919 -12%
$476,124$419,204 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.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Gold Run $2,200 California $3,997 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Gold Run$2,200
  • California$3,997
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.

Typical home values in Gold Run, CA fell 4.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Gold Run, Placer County, California

The Census does not count Gold Run on its own, so the figures here are Placer County's. Half the county's households earn more than $115,998 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Placer County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Placer County work in schools and health care, then professional services.

People 419,000 about, in Placer County: the Census does not count Gold Run on its own
Household income $115,998 the median in Placer County, give or take $2,483
Unemployment 4.5% Placer County, August 2026; 4.7% a year before
Homes 75% lived in by their owners; 25% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gold Run sits in the hills of Placer County, in the part of California where the gold-rush past still shows in the landscape and in local names. Across Placer County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the county's median age is somewhat older than the national middle. Winters here are cool, with some snow, and summers are hot, so the seasons feel quite distinct from one another.

Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in professional and business services. Shops and retail, along with banks, insurance and property firms, also employ many people across the county. Unemployment across Placer County has eased over the past year, and jobs have grown slightly. Many adults hold a degree, and a good number of people work from home.

Things to do. Sugar Pine Reservoir is in or beside town, so it is the easiest outing for a summer afternoon by the water. Empire Mine State Historic Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and tells the story of the region's gold mining. For a winter day out, Sugar Bowl Ski Resort is also a longer drive away.

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  • 157,954households
  • 42.5median age
  • 43%of adults have a degree
  • 7%below the poverty line
  • 27 mintypical commute
  • 23%work from home

What people in Placer County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care24%
  • Professional and business services14%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Banks, insurance and property8%
  • Government8%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Placer County had 188,212 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 54° and 36°; warmest in July, 92° and 62° 40° 60° 80° 100° J F M A M J J 92° 62° A S O N D 54° 36°
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in December, 54° and 36°; warmest in July, 92° and 62° 40° 60° 80° 100° J F M A M J J 92° 62° A S O N D 54° 36°

Coldest in December, with highs near 54° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 62°. About 7 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Colfax weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Placer County

  1. Sutter Roseville Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,633FTE
  2. Thunder Valley Casino ResortHotels, resort, with casinos2,232
  3. KFH - RosevilleGeneral hospital2,038FTE
  4. 24 Hour Home CareSenior citizens centers1,385
  5. City of Roseville Main OfficesPersonnel offices, government1,300
  6. Penumbra, Inc. - Roseville CampusCatheters manufacturing1,258
  7. Roseville City Elementary SchoolsSchool district1,143FTE
  8. Sierra CollegeTwo-year college1,122

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 362 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57,395 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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

  1. AvalanchesVery high
  2. WildfireRelatively high
  3. Inland floodingRelatively high
  4. LightningRelatively high
  5. EarthquakesRelatively moderate
  6. DroughtRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Placer County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Placer County and the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.

Gold Run home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Gold Run $419,204 California $761,538 United States $366,157
$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Gold Run$419,204
  • 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.

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Zip codes with a Gold Run address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gold Run — 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.