Lakehead, California.
Typical home $336,041 (+1.5% in a year). Redding, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$788 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,077 +2%
- $330,965$336,041 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,276 +0%
- $334,766$336,041 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.
- Lakehead$1,764
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lakehead, CA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lakehead, Shasta County, California
Lakehead, in Shasta County, had 469 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Shasta County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shasta 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lakehead is a very small community in Shasta County, with far fewer residents than a typical town. Homes here are valued above what many homeowners might expect for a rural spot, and the county's household incomes sit in the low-to-middle range for California. Winters are cool and wet, with December the coldest month, while summers turn properly hot, with July afternoons that can be uncomfortably warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with professional and business services also well represented. Only a small share of people work from home. Across Shasta County, the largest workplaces include Mercy Medical Center Redding and Shasta College, along with several California Department of Transportation facilities. Unemployment in the county is slightly lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Shasta Lake, a large reservoir, is a short drive away, as is Lake Shasta Caverns, a tourist attraction. Kabyai Creek, also close by, offers a quieter stretch of running water. For a longer outing, Trinity Lake is another reservoir that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 3%work from home
What people in Shasta County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shasta County had 71,664 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 54° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 69°. About 63 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shasta Dam weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shasta County
- Mercy Medical Center ReddingGeneral hospital1,508FTE
- Shasta CollegeUniversity or college662
- Shasta Community Health CenterCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient536
- CAL FireCal fire503
- Shasta Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital492FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters465
- Shasta Union High SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- Redding Elementary SchoolsSchool district411FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 132 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,977 people in all across the county; Lakehead 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Lakehead’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 Shasta County and the Redding, CA metro.
Lakehead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lakehead$336,041
- 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.
- Lakehead16
Zip codes with a Lakehead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lakehead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.