Loleta, California.
Typical home $441,781 (-0.4% in a year). Eureka-Arcata, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$596 (+35%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,635 -0%
- $443,415$441,781 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $83,416 -16%
- $525,197$441,781 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.
- Loleta$2,319
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Loleta, CA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Loleta, Humboldt County, California
Loleta, in Humboldt County, had 828 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Humboldt County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Humboldt 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Loleta is a small community in Humboldt County on California's north coast, with a population that fills only a few streets and surrounding farmland. Winters are cool and summers stay mild, with highs that never climb far above the cool side even in August, and snow is rare. Rain falls through much of the year, so the climate is a damp, temperate coastal one. Typical home values here run well above what the county's household incomes might suggest, and a sizable share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Humboldt County, the largest workplaces include the California Department of Transportation facilities, California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt and St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka. Unemployment across the county is about where it stood a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Several protected places lie a short drive away, among them Headwaters Forest Reserve, a protected area, and the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The Humboldt Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden a short drive away, and the Van Duzen River offers a river close by. For a longer outing, Humboldt Redwoods State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 16%below the poverty line
What people in Humboldt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Humboldt County had 52,251 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 55° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 64° and lows near 53°. About 40 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eureka Weather Office Woodley Island weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Humboldt County
- California State Polytechnic University-HumboldtUniversity or college1,189
- St. Joseph Hospital - EurekaGeneral hospital818FTE
- College of the RedwoodsTwo-year college472
- Eureka City SchoolsSchool district461FTE
- CAL FireCal fire420
- MAD River Community HospitalGeneral hospital415FTE
- Humboldt Sawmill CoBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts313
- Danco BuildersMultifamily building construction general contractors301
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,058 people in all across the county; Loleta has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- TsunamisRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Loleta’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 Humboldt County and the Eureka-Arcata, CA metro.
Loleta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Loleta$441,781
- 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.
- Loleta5
Zip codes with a Loleta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Loleta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.