Mill Creek, California.
. Red Bluff, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,997 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Living in Mill Creek, Tehama County, California
The Census does not count Mill Creek on its own, so the figures here are Tehama County's. Half the county's households earn more than $63,784 a year and half less; 16% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 67% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Tehama County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tehama County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mill Creek is a town in Tehama County in northern California, set in the hills near the North Fork Feather River and on the way toward Lassen Volcanic National Park. Most homes here are lived in by their owners rather than rented, which gives the community a settled feel. The figures on this page are for the whole county, since the Census does not count the town on its own.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in government. Unemployment across Tehama County has eased over the past year, though the county had slightly fewer jobs in the latest year than the one before. Winters are colder than in most of the country, and summers are warm, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year.
Things to do. The North Fork Feather River runs in or beside town, so it is one of the easiest places to spend an afternoon outdoors. Emerald Lake is a short drive away, and Lassen Volcanic National Park is a longer drive, offering mountain scenery and volcanic landscapes. The Loomis Museum is also a longer drive away.
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- 24,788households
- 40.0median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Tehama County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tehama County had 19,664 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 44°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mineral weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tehama County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage862
- County of TehamaBoards of supervisors, county and local713
- Sierra Pacific WindowsFrames, door and window, wood, manufacturing616
- Rolling Hills Casino721120 casino hotels611
- CAL FireCal fire462
- St Elizabeth Community HosptialGeneral hospital415FTE
- Sierra Pacific IndustriesMoldings, clear and finger joint wood, manufacturing361
- Sierra Pacific IndMoldings, wood and covered wood, manufacturing326
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,523 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Tehama County, 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 Tehama County and the Red Bluff, CA metro.
Mill Creek home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Mill Creek address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mill Creek — 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.