Maxwell, California.
Typical home $294,103 (+0.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$721 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,226 +1%
- $291,877$294,103 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,170 +7%
- $274,933$294,103 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.
- Maxwell$1,544
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 51 years.
Typical home values in Maxwell, CA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Maxwell, Colusa County, California
Maxwell, in Colusa County, had 1,067 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Colusa County was 9.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Colusa County work in farming, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Maxwell is a small community in the Sacramento Valley of Colusa County, and a young one by the standards of most towns, with a median age well below what older homeowners may be used to. Winters are mild and cool, with little or no snow, and summers turn hot in July. Rain falls mostly in the cooler months, at a modest amount for the year. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and typical homes cost less than in much of California.
Work. Many residents work in farming, in schools and hospitals, in manufacturing, or in government, and the commute to work is a fairly long one. Across Colusa County, the largest workplaces include the Arbuckle Rice Mill, The Morning Star Packing Company, and Colusa Unified school district. Unemployment across the county is high compared with much of the country, and it has changed little over the past year. Incomes for households in the county as a whole are decent for a rural area.
Things to do. A short drive away, Delevan National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for walking and watching birds, and the Sacramento Valley Museum is nearby for a quiet afternoon indoors. Stone Corral Creek, also a short drive off, is a small river worth a look. For a longer outing, Thunderhill Raceway Park is a race track a longer drive away.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Colusa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Colusa County had 9,472 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 54° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 60°. About 17 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Colusa Ssw weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Colusa County
- Arbuckle Rice Mill164
- The Morning Star Packing Company - WMPastes, fruit and vegetable, canning163
- Colusa UnifiedSchool district150FTE
- Williams UnifiedSchool district135FTE
- Pierce Joint UnifiedSchool district131FTE
- Acc-gwgRice milling112
- Sun Valley RiceRice milling108
- Colusa Medical CenterGeneral hospital106FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,571 people in all across the county; Maxwell has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Maxwell’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 Colusa County.
Maxwell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Maxwell$294,103
- 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 Maxwell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Maxwell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.