Hayfork, California.
Typical home $146,407 (-13.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$54 (+7%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $21,980 -13%
- $168,387$146,407 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $107,472 -42%
- $253,878$146,407 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.
- Hayfork$768
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hayfork, CA fell 13.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hayfork, Trinity County, California
Hayfork, in Trinity County, had 2,324 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Trinity County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Trinity County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hayfork is a small community in Trinity County, in the mountains of northern California. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across the country, and household incomes across Trinity County sit below the national picture. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers turn quite hot.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, then farming, forestry and mining, and shops. Among the largest workplaces across Trinity County are Trinity Hospital, Trinity River Lumber Company and the Trinity Alps Unified school district. Unemployment across the county has held steady compared with a year ago, and the number of jobs has dipped slightly.
Things to do. Trinity National Forest, a protected area, and the Chanchelulla Wilderness are both a short drive away, with woods and trails close to town. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Trinity Lake, a reservoir, and to the Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park, a museum.
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What people in Trinity County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Trinity County had 2,894 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 53°. About 3 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Bar East weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Trinity County
- Trinity HospitalCritical access hospital161FTE
- Trinity River Lumber CompanyDimension lumber, made from logs or bolts150
- Trinity Alps UnifiedSchool district96FTE
- North State Grocery Group445110 supermarkets and other grocery retailers71
- Camp BasinChildren's camps60
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture60
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture55
- Mountain Valley UnifiedSchool district52FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 312 people in all across the county; Hayfork has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LandslidesVery high
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hayfork’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 Trinity County.
Hayfork home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hayfork$146,407
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 30 Hayfork listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Hayfork3.30%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hayfork29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hayfork address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hayfork — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.