Mount Shasta, California.
Typical home $415,130 (-0.6% in a year), asking rent $2,333 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,009 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,699 -1%
- $417,829$415,130 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,624 +6%
- $392,507$415,130 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.
- Mount Shasta$2,179
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 62 years.
Typical home values in Mount Shasta, CA fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County, California
Mount Shasta is a city of 3,223 people in Siskiyou County. Unemployment in Siskiyou County was 7.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Siskiyou 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Shasta is a small city in Siskiyou County, at the foot of the great volcano it is named for. Winters are cold and very snowy, with a good deal of rain and melted snow across the year, while July brings warm summer afternoons. Housing costs here run high, and rents are steep for a town this size. Incomes across the county sit below the state's, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line, though a good many adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in town include Mercy Medical Center MT. Shasta, the Forest Service and Siskiyou Union High Schools. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Lake Siskiyou, a reservoir, and Mount Shasta City Park, a garden, are both in or beside town. A short drive away is Castle Lake, a mountain lake, and Mount Shasta Ski Park, a ski area for the snowy months. Mossbrae Falls, a waterfall, is also a short drive from town.
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- 1,682households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
What people in Siskiyou County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Siskiyou County had 13,862 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 51°. About 89 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Shasta weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mount Shasta
- Mercy Medical Center Mt. ShastaCritical access hospital194FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture66
- Siskiyou Union High SchoolsSchool district61FTE
- Mt. Shasta Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- City of Mount ShastaExecutive offices, federal, state, and local55
- Ray Mac MechanicalHeating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors38
- Shasta ServicesPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 396 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Mount Shasta’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Siskiyou County.
Mount Shasta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Shasta$415,130
- 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 4 Mount Shasta listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Mount Shasta27.07%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Shasta51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Shasta9
Zip codes with a Mount Shasta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Shasta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.