Kings Beach, California.
Typical home $847,562 (+5.9% in a year), asking rent $3,500 . Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,413 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $47,274 +6%
- $800,288$847,562 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,530 +6%
- $796,032$847,562 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.
- Kings Beach$4,449
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 55 years.
Typical home values in Kings Beach, CA rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kings Beach, Placer County, California
Kings Beach, in Placer County, had 3,563 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Placer County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Placer County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kings Beach is a small community on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, in Placer County. Residents are somewhat older than in much of the country, and homes here cost far more than in most places. Winters are cold, with the lows well below freezing in January, while August brings mild, comfortable highs.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, or banks, insurance and property. Very few work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one. Across Placer County, Sutter Roseville Medical Center is among the largest workplaces, along with several California Department of Transportation facilities.
Things to do. The lake is the main draw, and Burnt Cedar Beach and Griff Creek are in or beside town. A short drive away are Lake Tahoe State Park and Northstar California, a ski area. Granlibakken, another ski area, is also a short drive away.
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- 1,133households
- 7%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Placer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Placer County had 188,212 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 41° and lows near 24°; warmest in August, with highs near 76° and lows near 50°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Incline Village weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Placer County
- Sutter Roseville Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,633FTE
- Thunder Valley Casino ResortHotels, resort, with casinos2,232
- KFH - RosevilleGeneral hospital2,038FTE
- 24 Hour Home CareSenior citizens centers1,385
- City of Roseville Main OfficesPersonnel offices, government1,300
- Penumbra, Inc. - Roseville CampusCatheters manufacturing1,258
- Roseville City Elementary SchoolsSchool district1,143FTE
- Sierra CollegeTwo-year college1,122
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 362 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57,395 people in all across the county; Kings Beach has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Kings Beach’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 Placer County and the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
Kings Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kings Beach$847,562
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Kings Beach 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.
- Kings Beach16.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kings Beach23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kings Beach5
Zip codes with a Kings Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kings Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.