Jamestown, California.
Typical home $397,415 (-0.9% in a year). Sonora, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$932 (+81%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $3,716 -1%
- $401,131$397,415 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,277 +2%
- $391,138$397,415 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.
- Jamestown$2,086
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Jamestown, CA fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California
Jamestown, in Tuolumne County, had 3,478 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $57,276 a year and half less, against $77,404 across Tuolumne County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Tuolumne County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tuolumne County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jamestown is a small community in Tuolumne County, in the Sierra foothills of California. Incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is priced well above what the town's incomes alone would suggest. Winters are mild for the mountains, with little or no snow, and summers get hot; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with others in professional and business services or government. Across Tuolumne County, the largest workplaces include Adventist Health Sonora, Chicken Ranch Casino and Rush Creek Lodge. Jobs in the county grew slightly last year, and unemployment is no lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, a railroad museum, is in or beside town. A short drive away are Columbia State Historic Park, a protected area, and New Melones Lake, a reservoir. For a longer outing, Stanislaus National Forest is a longer drive away.
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- 1,795households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Tuolumne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tuolumne County had 18,392 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 57°. About 33 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sonora weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tuolumne County
- Adventist Health SonoraGeneral hospital872FTE
- Chicken Ranch Casino721120 casino hotels786
- casinoCasinos488
- Rush Creek LodgeHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities350
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Evergreen LodgeHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities247
- Columbia CollegeTwo-year college204
- SPISawmills180
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,732 people in all across the county; Jamestown has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jamestown’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 Tuolumne County and the Sonora, CA metro.
Jamestown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jamestown$397,415
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Jamestown 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jamestown17
Zip codes with a Jamestown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jamestown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.