Graeagle, California.
Typical home $413,990 (-0.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,031 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,354 -1%
- $417,344$413,990 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,036 +6%
- $390,954$413,990 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.
- Graeagle$2,173
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 61 years.
Typical home values in Graeagle, CA fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Graeagle, Plumas County, California
Graeagle, in Plumas County, had 724 people in the 2020 census. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Plumas County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Plumas County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Graeagle is a very small mountain community in Plumas County, and its residents are much older than in most of the country. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than across the county or the state. Winters are cold, with December highs a little above freezing and nights well below it. Snow is a regular part of the season, and summers are warm, with July the hottest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with government close behind. Across Plumas County, some of the largest workplaces are Sierra Pacific Industries, Quincy Division, Plumas Unified and Eastern Plumas Health Care. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few people here work from home.
Things to do. Plumas–Eureka State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the Western Pacific Railroad Museum is also close by. For more time outdoors, Tahoe National Forest and Plumas National Forest are a longer drive away, as is Frenchman Lake, a reservoir.
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What people in Plumas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plumas County had 6,610 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 45°. About 38 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portola weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plumas County
- Sierra Pacific Industries, Quincy DivisionWood chips made in sawmills289
- Plumas UnifiedSchool district200FTE
- Feather River Community College DistrictUniversity or college190
- Eastern Plumas Health CareCritical access hospital144FTE
- Plumas District Hospital CAHCritical access hospital129FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture117
- Seneca District HospitalCritical access hospital93FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,074 people in all across the county; Graeagle has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- WildfireVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Graeagle’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 Plumas County.
Graeagle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Graeagle$413,990
- 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.
- Graeagle16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Graeagle6
Zip codes with a Graeagle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Graeagle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.