Oak Run, California.
Typical home $367,854 (-1.6% in a year). Redding, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$636 (+49%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,920 -2%
- $373,774$367,854 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $74,825 -17%
- $442,679$367,854 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.
- Oak Run$1,931
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Oak Run, CA fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oak Run, Shasta County, California
Oak Run, in Shasta County, had 158 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Shasta County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shasta 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oak Run is a very small rural community in Shasta County, with far fewer people than a typical town, so neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are typically worth more than the county's median household income might suggest, and the pace is quiet, with the nearest larger towns a drive away.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in professional and business services. Commutes are on the long side, which fits a place set well outside the larger towns. Across Shasta County, some of the largest workplaces are Mercy Medical Center Redding and Shasta College.
Things to do. Water and open country are the main draws within driving distance. Shasta Lake is a reservoir, and Lake Shasta Caverns is a tourist attraction, both a longer drive away. The Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation Area, a protected area, is also a longer drive away. Winters are cool and mostly rain, with only a little snow, and summers get very hot.
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- 33 mintypical commute
What people in Shasta County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shasta County had 71,664 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 56° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 100° and lows near 67°. About 3 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Redding Municipal Airport weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shasta County
- Mercy Medical Center ReddingGeneral hospital1,508FTE
- Shasta CollegeUniversity or college662
- Shasta Community Health CenterCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient536
- CAL FireCal fire503
- Shasta Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital492FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters465
- Shasta Union High SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- Redding Elementary SchoolsSchool district411FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 132 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,977 people in all across the county; Oak Run has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oak Run’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 Shasta County and the Redding, CA metro.
Oak Run home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oak Run$367,854
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oak Run9
Zip codes with a Oak Run address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oak Run — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.