La Grange, California.
Typical home $394,666 (-0.5% in a year). Sonora, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$934 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,025 -1%
- $396,691$394,666 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,608 -1%
- $397,274$394,666 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.
- La Grange$2,072
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in La Grange, CA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Grange, Tuolumne County, California
La Grange, in Tuolumne County, had 166 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Grange is a very small community in Tuolumne County, with far fewer residents than most California towns. Homes here are typically valued well below what many Californians pay, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with a little snow now and then and a fair amount of rain, and summers get hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in professional and business services, and in government. Across Tuolumne County, some of the largest workplaces are Adventist Health Sonora, Chicken Ranch Casino and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Several reservoirs are a short drive away, including Don Pedro Reservoir and Lake McClure, and Turlock Lake State Recreation Area is a protected area close by too. A longer drive brings you to Columbia State Historic Park, a protected area, and to Railtown 1897 State Historic Park, a museum. The Gallo Center for the Arts, a theatre, is also a longer drive away.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
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 52° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 56°. About 4 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Groveland weather station, 18 miles 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; La Grange has none 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
- DroughtVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 La Grange’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 Tuolumne County and the Sonora, CA metro.
La Grange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Grange$394,666
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 La Grange 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.
- La Grange27.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- La Grange21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- La Grange5
Zip codes with a La Grange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Grange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.