Litchfield, California.
Typical home $296,695 (+7.6% in a year). Susanville, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$780 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,867 +8%
- $275,828$296,695 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,350 +11%
- $266,344$296,695 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.
- Litchfield$1,557
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Litchfield, CA rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Litchfield, Lassen County, California
Litchfield, in Lassen County, had 160 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lassen County was 6.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lassen County work in government, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Litchfield is a very small community in Lassen County, in the high country of northeastern California. Homes here cost less than in much of the state, and the winters are cold, with daytime highs staying below freezing-level comfort in December and nights colder still. Summers turn warm in July, and the year brings only a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Across Lassen County, people work mostly in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Some of the largest workplaces across the county are High Desert State Prison, CAL Fire and Lassen Community College. Jobs have become somewhat fewer over the past year, and unemployment is about where it was a year ago.
Things to do. Willow Creek runs in or beside town, so there is moving water close at hand. A short drive away are Honey Lake and the Susan River. For a longer outing, Eagle Lake is a longer drive away, and so is Coppervale Ski Area for a day in the snow.
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What people in Lassen County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lassen County had 8,945 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 53°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Susanville 2SW weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lassen County
- CDCR, High Desert State PrisonCorrectional institutions1,305
- CAL FireCal fire389
- Lassen Community CollegeTwo-year college207
- WalmartDiscount department stores162
- Banner Lassen Medical CenterCritical access hospital152FTE
- Sierra Cascade NurseryStrawberry farming149
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice125
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,771 people in all across the county; Litchfield has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Litchfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Lassen County and the Susanville, CA metro.
Litchfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Litchfield$296,695
- 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.
Zip codes with a Litchfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Litchfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.