Long Barn, California.
Typical home $344,902 (-2.0% in a year). Sonora, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$819 (+83%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $7,000 -2%
- $351,902$344,902 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $5,644 +2%
- $339,258$344,902 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.
- Long Barn$1,810
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Long Barn, CA fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Long Barn, Tuolumne County, California
Long Barn, in Tuolumne County, had 162 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Long Barn is a very small community in the Sierra Nevada of Tuolumne County, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, which is common in mountain communities where many places serve as second homes. Winters are cold, with December highs near the freezing mark's upper side and heavy snow through the season, while summer afternoons turn warm but not extreme.
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, a general hospital, Rush Creek Lodge, and a Walmart. Unemployment across the county stands at the same level as a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Stanislaus National Forest, a protected area of woods and trails, is a longer drive away, as is Calaveras Big Trees State Park, known for its giant trees. Dodge Ridge Ski Area, also a longer drive, draws people up the mountain for winter days in the snow. For a day on the water, Hetch Hetchy is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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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 49° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 58°. About 108 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cherry Valley Dam weather station, 14 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; Long Barn 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Long Barn’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.
Long Barn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Long Barn$344,902
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Long Barn 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.
- Long Barn29.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Long Barn25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Long Barn5
Zip codes with a Long Barn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Long Barn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.