Laytonville, California.
Typical home $285,394 (-9.6% in a year). Ukiah, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $237 (-14%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $30,411 -10%
- $315,806$285,394 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $215,620 -43%
- $501,014$285,394 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.
- Laytonville$1,498
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Laytonville, CA fell 9.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laytonville, Mendocino County, California
Laytonville, in Mendocino County, had 1,152 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Mendocino County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mendocino 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laytonville is a small community in Mendocino County, home to a modest number of people who know one another well. Homes here cost less than in many parts of California, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with highs near the middle of the range for a mild coastal-hills climate and lows right around freezing, while summers turn hot. Snow is rare and light, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Mendocino County, the biggest workplaces include Ukiah Unified, Adventist Health Ukiah Valley and Mendocino College. The county has lost a small number of jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The South Fork Eel River and the Middle Fork Eel River are both rivers a short drive away, and Admiral William Standley State Recreation Area, a protected area, is also close by. Glass Beach is a longer drive away, on the coast.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
What people in Mendocino County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mendocino County had 31,998 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 50° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 53°. About 3 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Covelo weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mendocino County
- Ukiah UnifiedSchool district680FTE
- Adventist Health Ukiah ValleyGeneral hospital567FTE
- CAL FireCal fire466
- Mendocino CollegeTwo-year college422
- Ahhm-one Marcela DR DeptsGeneral medical and surgical hospitals315
- Fort Bragg UnifiedSchool district245FTE
- Adventist Health Mendocino CoastCritical access hospital230FTE
- Howard Memorial HospitaCritical access hospital229FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,318 people in all across the county; Laytonville has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LandslidesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Laytonville’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 Mendocino County and the Ukiah, CA metro.
Laytonville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laytonville$285,394
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Laytonville 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.
- Laytonville23.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Laytonville23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Laytonville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laytonville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.