Murphys, California.
Typical home $474,846 (-1.3% in a year). Sonora, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,143 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,152 -1%
- $480,998$474,846 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,506 +2%
- $466,340$474,846 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.
- Murphys$2,492
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Murphys, CA fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Murphys, Calaveras County, California
Murphys, in Calaveras County, had 1,995 people in the 2020 census. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Calaveras County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calaveras County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Murphys is a small community in Calaveras County, in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and the share of residents with a four-year degree is moderate. Winters are cool, with little or no snow, and summers get hot; the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and shops. Across Calaveras County, the largest workplaces include Calaveras Unified, Mark Twain Medical Center and CAL Fire. Across the county there were slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Mercer Caverns is a tourist attraction in or beside town, and California Caverns and Moaning Cavern are both a short drive away. Columbia State Historic Park is also a short drive away and is a protected area. For a longer outing, Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 1,008households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What people in Calaveras County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calaveras County had 10,140 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 65°. About 30 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Melones Dam Headquarters weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calaveras County
- CAL FireCal fire664
- ACRT PacificForestry services333
- Calaveras UnifiedSchool district257FTE
- Mark Twain Medical CenterCritical access hospital219FTE
- Pride On PointDriving services214
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services113
- Calaveras County Office of Education SchoolsSchool district95FTE
- Bret Harte Union High SchoolsSchool district91FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,121 people in all across the county; Murphys has one 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Murphys’ 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 Calaveras County and the Sonora, CA metro.
Murphys home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Murphys$474,846
- 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 Murphys 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.
- Murphys31.54%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Murphys67
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Murphys9
Zip codes with a Murphys address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Murphys — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Murphys
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95247 | Murphys | 3,858 | — | $495,903 |
| 95224 | Avery | 316 | — | $390,018 |
| 95233 | Hathaway Pines | 134 | — | $356,849 |