Middletown, California.
Typical home $287,481 (-1.6% in a year). Clearlake, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$568 (+60%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,773 -2%
- $292,253$287,481 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $22,278 -7%
- $309,758$287,481 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.
- Middletown$1,509
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Middletown, CA fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Middletown, Lake County, California
Middletown, in Lake County, had 1,114 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lake County was 7.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lake 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Middletown is a small community in Lake County, California, with a population that stays modest and close-knit. Winters are cool and mild, with little or no snow, and summers turn hot and dry in July. Most of the year's moisture comes as rain, and the typical home here costs well within reach compared with much of California.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades and government. Very few work from home. Across Lake County, larger workplaces include Konocti Unified, Adventist Health Clearlake and Calpine Geysers.
Things to do. The Napa River, Robert Louis Stevenson State Park and Hidden Valley Lake, a reservoir, are all a short drive away, which makes for easy outings on the water or among the trees. Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest, a protected area, is also a short drive away. Clear Lake and Lake Berryessa are longer drives if you want a full day out on a bigger body of water.
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- 8%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 17,762 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 58° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 55°. About 39 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Calistoga weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake County
- Konocti UnifiedSchool district457FTE
- 18TH AVE DeptsGeneral medical and surgical hospitals438
- Adventist Health ClearlakeCritical access hospital417FTE
- Calpine GeysersFossil fuel electric power generation281
- WalmartDiscount department stores241
- Twin Pine Casino & HotelHotels, casino235
- Sutter Lakeside HospitalCritical access hospital228FTE
- Kelseyville UnifiedSchool district210FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,738 people in all across the county; Middletown has two 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Middletown’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 Lake County and the Clearlake, CA metro.
Middletown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Middletown$287,481
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Middletown 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.
- Middletown27.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Middletown41
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Middletown6
Zip codes with a Middletown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Middletown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Middletown
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95461 | Middletown | 3,422 | — | $313,401 |
| 95426 | Cobb | 1,257 | — | $283,486 |