Gridley, California.
Typical home $342,009 (+1.2% in a year). Chico, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$861 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,973 +1%
- $338,037$342,009 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,964 +11%
- $308,046$342,009 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.
- Gridley$1,795
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Gridley, CA rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Gridley, Butte County, California
Gridley is a city of 7,421 people in Butte County. Half its households earn more than $57,974 a year and half less, against $67,928 across Butte County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Butte County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gridley is a small city in Butte County with a young population for the area, and more renters than owners compared with the county as a whole. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect in a town this size. Winters are mild and cool, with January the coldest month, while summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and farming. Among the largest workplaces in Gridley are Gridley Unified, Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital and Safeway. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and nearly everyone gets to work in person rather than from home, with a commute of a fair length. Unemployment across Butte County has stayed a little above where many would like it, and the number of jobs there slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Oroville is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Feather Falls is a waterfall also a longer drive off. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park, a protected area, is another longer drive away and gives a look at the region's nineteenth-century history. Each makes for a day out rather than a quick errand.
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- 2,475households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Butte County had 78,544 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 65°. About 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oroville Municipal Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gridley
- Gridley UnifiedSchool district202FTE
- Biggs-gridley Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital139FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores61
- North State Grocery Group445110 supermarkets and other grocery retailers42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 103 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- DroughtVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gridley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Butte County and the Chico, CA metro.
Gridley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gridley$342,009
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Gridley listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Gridley19.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gridley31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gridley9
Zip codes with a Gridley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gridley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.