Hornbrook, California.
Typical home $230,252 (-0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$616 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $456 -0%
- $230,708$230,252 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,811 +5%
- $218,441$230,252 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.
- Hornbrook$1,209
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 66 years.
Typical home values in Hornbrook, CA fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hornbrook, Siskiyou County, California
Hornbrook, in Siskiyou County, had 266 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Siskiyou County was 7.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Siskiyou County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hornbrook is a very small community in Siskiyou County, in the far north of California. Homes here are priced well below what is typical for the state, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July; precipitation is light, mostly rain with some melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Siskiyou County, some of the largest workplaces are Fairchild Medical Center, a critical access hospital, along with CAL Fire and Walmart. The county has fewer jobs than a year earlier, and unemployment there is a little higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Shasta River is a good spot for time by the water, and Chocolate Falls is a waterfall that makes an easy outing. Farther afield, the Pacific Crest Trail passes through the region for those who like to hike, and Mount Ashland Ski Area is the nearest place for winter skiing, a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
What people in Siskiyou County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Siskiyou County had 13,862 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 46° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 54°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montague Siskiyou County Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Siskiyou County
- Fairchild Medical CenterCritical access hospital341FTE
- CAL FireCal fire265
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters224
- Plant Sciences Genetics, MacdoelAgriculture production or harvesting crews210
- College of the SiskiyousTwo-year college208
- Pfeiffer VacuumFlanges and flange unions, pipe, metal, manufacturing201
- Mercy Medical Center Mt. ShastaCritical access hospital194FTE
- Yreka Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district142FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,934 people in all across the county; Hornbrook has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hornbrook’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 Siskiyou County.
Hornbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hornbrook$230,252
- 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.
- Hornbrook10
Zip codes with a Hornbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hornbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.