Graton, California.
Typical home $768,017 (-2.1% in a year). Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,611 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $16,371 -2%
- $784,389$768,017 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,239 +2%
- $750,778$768,017 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.
- Graton$4,031
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Graton, CA fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Graton, Sonoma County, California
Graton, in Sonoma County, had 1,683 people in the 2020 census. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Sonoma County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sonoma County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Graton is a small community in western Sonoma County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners, a higher share than in many places. Typical home values sit well above what many older homeowners elsewhere in the country would expect. Winters are mild and wet, with little or no snow, and summers are warm without being extreme.
Work. Residents of Graton work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. The commute is a moderate one for most workers. Across Sonoma County, some of the largest workplaces are Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa Junior College and Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
Things to do. Ragle Ranch Regional Park is in or beside town, a protected area for getting outdoors close to home. A short drive away are the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center and the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, a theatre. Those willing to go a longer drive can reach Goat Rock Beach on the coast.
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- 760households
- 25 mintypical commute
What people in Sonoma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sonoma County had 206,393 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 58° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 50°. About 40 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Graton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sonoma County
- Solairus AviationPassenger air transportation, nonscheduled1,800
- Kaiser PermanenteGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,755
- Keysight TechnologiesDigital test equipment manufacturing1,517
- Santa Rosa Junior CollegeTwo-year college1,491
- Santa Rosa Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,444FTE
- Santa Rosa High SchoolsSchool district1,119FTE
- Sonoma State UniversityUniversity or college1,058
- KFH - Santa RosaGeneral hospital884FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 414 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,136 people in all across the county; Graton 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Graton’s census tracts, 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 Sonoma County and the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
Graton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Graton$768,017
- 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 Graton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Graton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.