Herlong, California.
Typical home $113,759 (-2.2% in a year). Susanville, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$266 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,615 -2%
- $116,374$113,759 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,172 +3%
- $110,586$113,759 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.
- Herlong$597
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Herlong, CA fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Herlong, Lassen County, California
Herlong, in Lassen County, had 237 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $56,875 a year and half less, against $67,403 across Lassen County. Unemployment in Lassen County was 6.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lassen County work in government, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Herlong is a very small community in Lassen County, in the high country of northeastern California. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are cold and snowy, with December the coldest month, while summers turn properly warm by July.
Work. Most residents work in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in shops. Across Lassen County, some of the largest workplaces are the High Desert State Prison, Lassen Community College and CAL Fire. Unemployment across the county has stayed close to where it was a year earlier, and there were slightly fewer jobs in the county last year than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Honey Lake is a lake a longer drive away, and Frenchman Lake is a reservoir, also a longer drive away. Plumas National Forest, a protected area a longer drive away, offers woods and trails. The Western Pacific Railroad Museum is a longer drive away as well, for anyone interested in the region's railroad past.
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What people in Lassen County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lassen County had 8,945 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 51°. About 26 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Doyle Sse weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lassen County
- CDCR, High Desert State PrisonCorrectional institutions1,305
- CAL FireCal fire389
- Lassen Community CollegeTwo-year college207
- WalmartDiscount department stores162
- Banner Lassen Medical CenterCritical access hospital152FTE
- Sierra Cascade NurseryStrawberry farming149
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice125
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,771 people in all across the county; Herlong has none of its own. Colleges come 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Herlong’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 Lassen County and the Susanville, CA metro.
Herlong home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Herlong$113,759
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Herlong address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Herlong — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.